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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Politics
Amy Mackinnon

Putin’s Shadow Warriors Stake Claim to Syria’s Oil

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin shows then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sept. 20, 2010. Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

A Russian company that recently struck a deal with the Syrian government for offshore oil and gas exploration is part of a network of companies that make up the shadowy Russian mercenary group known as Wagner, which has played a pivotal role in Moscow’s destabilizing activities around the world, according to emails and company records seen by Foreign Policy. 

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