The authorities have always used the services of mercenaries, disowned losers, and commanders valued their personnel inexpensively. The squads of the first Rurikovichs are something between a state and private traveling military trading company. When statehood was established, the difference between the army of Lord Novgorod the Great and the band of ushkuiniks became visible.

There is no new “theater case” about theft at the Maly Drama Theater. In the morning in the Moscow City Court, before the start of the hearing, Malobrodsky, Itin, Maslyaeva were discussing the big news: again a new round of attack on the theater; MDT - Theater of Europe - is involved in the scandal! And even directly and rudely: they took on Dodin?!

The unit that fell under American aviation in Syria was not solving a state, but a private problem. For the sake of what was the purpose of the fighters of the PMC Wagner sent to a deliberately disastrous battle? Who or what they had to protect in territories that have long been purified from terrorists, but rich in oil and gas? This bright goal is money. And it’s not that very large: a quarter of income with a very mediocre Gas Konoko deposit by Russian standards.