Analysis: Why the Wagner Group Won’t Leave Africa
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Marat Gabidullin joined Wagner Group in 2015, rising to the rank of commander in Syria. In 2019, he resigned from Wagner and published a memoir in Russia called Into the Same River, Twice (translated into French as Moi, Marat). His second book, Ma Verité, was published this year.
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