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Putin's revolutionary Guard Corps - Eastern Express - TVP WORLD
In this episode, we unpack what the Kremlin’s growing reliance on its internal security apparatus tells us about the state of the Russian regime and its war in Ukraine.
A recent report by the Institute for the Study of War briefly suggested that Rosgvardia, Russia’s National Guard, was being subordinated to the General Staff under Valery Gerasimov.
Although that claim was later retracted, the underlying question remains: why is a force designed to police Russians increasingly being treated as a wartime formation?