THESE days it is rarely out of the headlines. This past week alone, the United States has formally labelled the Wagner Group a “transnational criminal organisation”, unveiling a wave of sanctions against the Russian mercenary force.
Not that the Kremlin appears to much care about how Wagner is viewed from abroad.
On January 17, reports emerged that for the first time since its foundation in 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin – a close ally of Vladimir Putin – Wagner has appeared on Russian government databases as a legitimate entity.
