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Aug 9, 2024 | 
gnet-research.org | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Alec Bertina
IntroductionIn a Mariupol football field, a video cut with Russian-language punk rock shows a group of men chasing a ball across the pitch. Around them, the flags of CSKA Moscow—a professional football club—flap in the late-winter wind, still cold enough that the spectators and some players are wearing toques. One of the teams, dressed in black uniforms with white lettering, claims the small plastic trophy.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
militantwire.com | Alec Bertina
The Atesh Movement is a collection of ethnic Ukrainian, Russian and Crimean Tatar partisans working to assist the Ukrainian state in fighting against Russia’s widened invasion of it. The group assists in target acquisition, conducts psychological warfare, and engages in organisational infiltration and partisan warfare. Despite its active presence on social media, Atesh receives sparse media coverage.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Alec Bertina
Shortly after Russian law enforcement was captured the four suspects of the Crocus City Hall terror attack – now agreed to be the work of Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) extremists – images indicating their torture surfaced for the whole world. To the joy of many pro-war and ultranationalist social media channels, a video of suspect Rajab Alizade having his ear cut off and being forced to eat it had surfaced.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Lucas Webber |Alec Bertina
Abstract: The Russian Imperial Movement has taken advantage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to further its revanchist goals of conquering the Donbas and “Novorossiya” while expanding its international footprint both politically and militarily. The Russian Imperial Movement gained useful combat experience through the participation of personnel from its paramilitary arm, the Russian Imperial Legion, in the invasion.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Andrew Mines |Lucas Webber |Alec Bertina
From the EditorAs we enter a new era of calibrated counterterrorism 22 years after 9/11, in this month’s feature article senior analysts at the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center provide a unique window into the U.S. government’s continuing efforts to suppress international terrorism.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
metro.co.uk | Josh Layton |Alec Bertina
A shadowy network of commanders may keep the Wagner Group going after the reported death of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash. Other senior figures may step in as the Kremlin labours in its attempts to bring the formation under its fold, an all-source intelligence analyst said. The scale of the group's blood-soaked operations across the Middle East and Africa may also make it difficult to subsume the entire group.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
tagesspiegel.de | Alec Bertina
Mit seiner Meuterei gegen Moskau hat Jewgenij Prigoschin die Welt gleich zweimal verblüfft: Als er den Aufstand anzettelte und dann, als er ihn hastig auflöste.Jetzt ist der Anführer der Söldnergruppe Wagner im belarusischen Exil. Doch was werden die Vorgänge vom 23. und 24. Juni für die Zukunft von Wagner als Organisation bedeuten? Die Tagesspiegel-App Aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Analysen direkt auf Ihr Smartphone. Dazu die digitale Zeitung. Hier gratis herunterladen.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
greydynamics.com | Alec Bertina
1.0 IntroductionThe Wagner Group is simultaneously shrouded in infamy and mystery. Whilst producing some of Russia’s most assault-capable forces, Wagner has also been its most powerful and unstable foreign policy asset. Its brutal methods, vast resources and highly-visible leadership make it a profoundly unique semi-state security formation. 2.0 Motto, Symbols And PatchesNot many organisations deployed in combat have been as successful as Wagner in turning itself into a brand.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
militantwire.com | Lucas Webber |Alec Bertina
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and its militant wing the Imperial Legion (IL) have received increasing attention from Western intelligence agencies and security researchers since the mid-2010s. RIM describes its ideology as imperialist, ultra-reactionary, Russian Orthodox, fascist, anti-liberal, and anti-communist. The Imperial Legion reportedly sent 300 fighters to Ukraine in 2014 alone.
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May 17, 2023 | 
jamestown.org | Lucas Webber |Alec Bertina
In late March 2023, The Moscow Times published a report detailing those ultraconservative, pro-Russian militias fighting in Ukraine. One of these elements, the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), has been training volunteers willing to fight in Ukraine. On the day of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, RIM Founder Denis Gariyev declared, “We of course support the liquidation of the separatist entity that goes by the name of Ukraine” (The Moscow Times, March 24).
