Article 6B216 Murder, alcohol and prostitutes: Wagner convicts pardoned by Putin return to terrorise home towns

Murder, alcohol and prostitutes: Wagner convicts pardoned by Putin return to terrorise home towns

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Pjotr Sauer
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Violent criminals who served with the notorious Russian militia in Ukraine are terrorising the communities they return to

He strode up and down the central street of Tskhinvali on Monday, like he did most days, occasionally stopping to chat with passersby.

Locals knew the man, Soslan Valiyev, 38, as an idiosyncratic but popular fixture in Tskhinvali, the tiny capital of the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.

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