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Russia has long been a ‘paramilitarised’ regime, where the state can be challenged and undermined, but is not completely destroyed, by paramilitary or criminal groups.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe Wagner Group, a Russian state-funded private military corporation filled with mercenaries and led by ignoble billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin, entered the American consciousness with Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Even more people came to know them when Prigozhin staged a short-lived mutiny where his forces briefly took the city or Rostov in southwestern Russia. Putin was able to end the mutiny without an...

Was basically the end. of those who were engaging in it. and were also more tolerant of no. the unionist paramilitary groups. so the fact that there was all this turmoil. i think gave us a chance. and we started with the visa for adams. gerry adams, sinn fein was organized. there were seven irish american groups that were very interested , and they were mostly pro republican. they were mostly but they were anti violence. so one of them we arranged asked jerry to come give a speech. and the visa ...

Legislators in New Mexico are advancing legislation to rein in paramilitary patrols that have popped up in recent years to halt migrants near the international border with Mexico.

After tense moments at a similar events last week, when members of the far-right group the proud boys showed up in protest. eric ward has more on how things went today. >> the scene along barracks road, the street closure, a crowd that heavy police presence and does not immediately say childrens story time. but neither does this confrontation outside of a silver stream bookstore last weekend around another story time. -- instead of facing a gauntlet of years, they were guided by rainbow under el...

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee heard evidence on the effects of paramilitarism on society as they held an evidence session at Stormont.

A Kremlin-linked paramilitary group asked for border intel on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, raising concerns about rogue actions in NATO states.

The Independent Reporting Commission recommended that a formal process of engagement with paramilitary groups in the north take place.

Slovak Levies, known for its pro-Russian rhetoric and monitored by the intelligence services in the past, announced an end to its activities.

"Task Force Rusich," a neo-Nazi militia, advocated for "removing body parts" of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Telegram message, per The Guardian.