The fighters, officers and resources of the paramilitary group founded by Yevgeny Pirgozhin are streaming into the three new organisations secretly validated by the Kremlin. Positions in the Africa unit are in high demand, but those of the Ukraine and Middle East branches are proving hard to fill.
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France's external intelligence service has announced plans to recruit 800 new staff in 2023 but some candidates are being discouraged by its cumbersome recruitment procedures
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Hanoi is about to lock in its F-16 fighter jets acquisition, but the Vietnamese air force is not putting all its eggs in one basket when it comes to suppliers.
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The Guoanbu is taking an increasingly close interest in Tsinghua University's Schwarzman College in its hunt for potential American contacts.
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Worried about legal repercussions since the start of the war in Ukraine, investors have been disentangling themselves from their Russian ties on the Swiss financial market. Like Horizon Capital AG and its sister company SCCF which found themselves owed money by one of Russia's most powerful businessmen, Mikhail Gutseriev, who is now under Western sanctions.
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Taiwanese companies, which have until now been little present in Ukraine, are now increasing their activities there, while the government in Taipei is looking to extend its cooperation with its counterpart in Kyiv.
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