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Pragosian's Future and the Future of Wagner
Article 359 of Russia's criminal code makes private military companies illegal. Yet these kinds of entities, between the Doxian Washington seem to exist and to have proliferated. There are purposeful loopholes built into the law to allow them to function more or less at the Kremlin's pleasure. The Russian government gets too much benefit from Wagner and the various shell companies connected to it abroad to completely dissolve them but they certainly are not getting benefit from Pragosian himself now.