“We cannot occupy that niche which the British are already occupying.” Oleg Krinitsyn on the functions of private military companies: “In fact, private military companies are not defined in law for us, but since we are heirs of Byzantine jurisprudence, then what is not forbidden is permitted, either unfortunately or fortunately. Therefore, having incorporated the most positive experience of foreign private military companies, we have begun since 2011 activity as a private military company which radically differs from private security companies. “The task of a private security company is to protect some object or be a bodyguard for a person. The spectrum of our services and our functional obligations is much broader. We operate with weapons outside of the Russian Federation, breaking neither the laws of the Russian Federation nor the laws of the host country. The fact is that the laws of other countries with respect to weaponry are more robust than corresponding Russian ...
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