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‫مجموعة فاغنر الروسية شركة عسكرية خاصة أم آداة جيوسياسية للكرملين

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تحاول هذه الورقة البحثية تسليط الضوء على الدور الذي تلعبه مجموعة فاغنر الروسية في مناطق النزاع، في ظل الحديث عن سيطرة وتوجيه كاملين من السلطات في روسيا لخدمة الأهداف الجيوسياسية للكرملين، . وقد تم الاعتماد في هذه الورقة على المنهج الاستكشافي التحليلي، من خلال قراءة لتاريخ نشأة هذه المجموعة وعلاقتها بالرئيس الروسي "بوتين"، ورصد عمليات وأماكن إنتشار أفرادها ومقارنة دورها والمهام التي تقوم بها مع التوجهات الجيوبوليتيكية للسياسة الخارجية الروسية في هذه المناطق. ولقد توصلنا من خلال هذه الورقة إلىى أن الغموض الذي يكتنف نشأة وإدارة ونوعية العمليات التي تقوم بها المجموعة تجعلها أقرب لأن تكون آداة جيوبوليتيكية للسياسة الخارجية الروسية منها إلى الشركات العسكرية الخاصة التقليدية . الكلمات المفتاحية: فاغنر؛ جيوسياسية؛ الشركات العسكرية الخاصة؛ الصراع؛ بوتين.
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
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Rassian Group Wagner
PMC or Kremlin’s geopolitical tool
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eloued.dz-salim@univ-Dahmani
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
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      
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Abstract:
This research paper attempts to shed light on the role that the Russian Wagner Group plays in
conflict areas, in light of the growing talk of complete control and direction from the authorities in
Russia to achieve the Kremlin’s geopolitical goals.
This paper has been relying on the analytical approach, through the knowing of creation of the
group and its relationship with Russian President "Putin", monitoring the operations and places of
deployment of it and comparing its role and tasks with the geopolitical trends of Russian foreign
policy in these areas.
We have concluded that the ambiguity surrounding the origins, management and quality of the
operations carried out by the group make it as a Geopolitical tool of Russian foreign policy than a
traditional PMCs.
Keywords: Wagner; Geopolitics; PMCs; Conflict; Putin.
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        Moran
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   Spetsnaz     
Wagner
Yvgeney Prigozhin
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        
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Yvgeney Prigozhin
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    
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
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GRU
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      
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     
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    
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        
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
(aljazeera.net)
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Candance Rondeaux, Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors
in Russian Proxy Warfare, New America, novembre 2019, P 50, seen at: Decoding_the_Wagner_Group.pdf
(d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net)
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 :-Crimes Against Peace and Mankind's Security (russian
code.com)-criminal
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
(jesrpress.com)
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Candance Rondeaux, Op.cit, P 18.
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Ibid, P 32.
7
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putina.org)-database “PUTIN'S LIST” (spisok
8
Alex Kassidiaris, The Wagner group paradox, Insideover, Decmebre 2019, seen at: The Wagner Group Paradox -
(insideover.com)
9
Aruuke urankyzy, The Wagner group : a private military company that’s not exactly private, TRTWorld, Jan
2020, seen at : The Wagner Group: a private military company that's not exactly 'private' (trtworld.com)
10
……….., Band of Brothers: The Wagner Group and the Russian State, Understanding the Russian Military
Today, CSIS, 21-09-2020, seen at : Band of Brothers: The Wagner Group and the Russian State | Center for Strategic and
International Studies (csis.org)
11
Ibid.
12
Ibid.
13
Tor Bukkvoll & Åse G. Østensen, The Emergence of Russian Private Military Companies: A New Tool of
Clandestine Warfare, Special Operations Journal, , 6:1,2020, P 7-8. doi: 10.1080/23296151.2020.1740528
14
 :Evro Polis Contract (documentcloud.org)
15
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
 
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16
Kimberly Marten, Russia’s use of semi-state security forces: the case of the Wagner Group, Post-Soviet Affairs,
35:3, 181-204, 2019, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2019.1591142
17
Laurence Peter, Syria war: Who are Russia's shadowy Wagner mercenaries?, BBCwebsite, 23 february 2018,
seen at: Syria war: Who are Russia's shadowy Wagner mercenaries? - BBC News
18
Nyel Hauer, The rise and fall of a Russian Macenary Army, foreign policy, 06 octobre 2019, seen at : Putin Put
the Wagner Group Private Army In Its Place (foreignpolicy.com)
19
Emmanual Dreyfus, Rusian Military Companies. Wagner, how many divisions?,OrientXXI, 24 april 2020, seen at:
Russian Military Companies. Wagner, How Many Divisions? (orientxxi.info)
20
Nathaniel Reynolds, Putin’s Not-So-Secret Mercenaries: Partronage, Geopolitics, and the Wagner Group,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 08 july 2019, seen at : Putin’s Not-So-Secret Mercenaries: Patronage,
Geopolitics, and the Wagner Group - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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This article provides a definitive, in-depth case-study, using primarily Russian sources, of Russia’s use of the informal “Wagner Group” private military company (PMC) and its antecedents (from 2012 to 2018) in Nigeria, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, Syria, Sudan, and the Central African Republic. It explores why Russia has used this group without legalizing its existence or role. While Wagner is sometimes used in the same ways that other rational states use PMCs, corrupt informal networks tied to the Russian regime have also used it in ways that are not typical of other strong states and that potentially undermine Russian security interests. Understanding the Wagner Group is interesting for comparative academic studies of PMCs, because Wagner doesn’t fit well any existing PMC category or template in the literature. It is also crucial for US and allied policy analysts attempting to attribute “Russian” actions in foreign theaters.
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