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Yevgeny Prigozhin is sponsoring the formation of a volunteer battalion recruited by Russian war criminal and former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Igor Girkin, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a U.S. defense and foreign affairs think tank. Girkin, an ultra-nationalist, is described as “an avid critic of the Russian higher military command.” He had reportedly wanted to form his own band of volunteers but had been unable to do so because of bureaucratic restrictions, while Prigozhin has enjoyed more power over his own notorious mercenary gang, known as the Wagner Group....