...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...'s authority was challenged by the private military contractor Wager in June, he attempted to nip the future evil in the bud by issuing a decree that called on all employees of the mercenary companies to sign an oath of allegiance to the state.
Those people involved in military activities in Ukraine, Russian territorial defence units and are helping the army will be subjected to the latest decree.
The decree is seen by some observers as a part of Vladimir Putin’s bid to reassert his authority following Wagner's mutiny in June.
Natia Seskuria of the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank, told the BBC: "Putin wants to have tighter control on Wagner to make sure he won't be facing another crisis in the future."
The decree was issued two days after the killing of the Russian private army Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prighozin in a plane crash that claimed at least ten lives.