Presentations by Streams

The panel will look into the factors driving internal changes within the Russian military, private military companies and other armed groups as well as political repercussion of tensions between ‘violent entrepreneurs’ during the war in Ukraine. How developments in the battlefield affect reconfigurations within the Russian armed groups? Do these developments render Russian authorities more vulnerable or more secure and what are the links between the siloviki, regime dynamics and domestic political support for the war? What can be said about the organizational behavior of these entrepreneurs? The panelists will rely on the variety of data and methodologies that will shed more light on how violent entrepreneurs and army ‘transmit’ the war back in Russia as well as the long-term implications for the regime resilience.