In effect, Russia's wealthiest state linked companies are being allowed to finance, equip, and direct their own armed formations to defend private industrial assets. This fundamentally shifts the balance of power between the Kremlin and Russia's oligarchs by giving major corporations armed personnel under their effective control.
I mean, it's been a good three years since the last time a wealthy, politically-connected Russian tried doing an armored push on Moscow.
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