Former vice president Vladislav Surkov opposed the existence of private military companies (PMCs) in Russia and saw them as a dangerous borrowing from Western practices. A portion of an interview with Surkov has been published. telegraph channel political strategist Alexei Chesnakov.
“There is no need to blindly copy other people’s institutions. Some things need to be adopted and some things don’t need to be adopted. <…> What is BBSH? Direct borrowing from Western practice, ”Surkov stressed.
He stressed that there is a contract system in the Russian Armed Forces, which can be complicated and made more flexible, but there is no need to “play more like PMCs”. Speaking about the PMC law, Surkov doubted whether it was worth “legitimizing an essentially non-institutional institution in Russian realities”, as this could even lead to the creation of a “private army”, and this “unmatched” Russian political, administrative and military culture” and Russia. would create the dangerous possibility of making it a kind of Eurasian “tribal zone”.
Former Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov declarationThe development of a bill on PMCs will not be completed until autumn. He noted that in Russia there are separate laws regulating the status of PMC employees, but existing legal norms will have to be “merged” with new ones.