Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Former Wagner Group fighters are finding, to their dismay, that few employers want to hire them; they can't even get jobs at Burger King. "They were promised a life with a clean slate and [the authorities] failed to fulfil their promises," a relative complains. ⬇️

2/ The Russian independent news outlet 'We can explain' (MO) reports that Wagner fighters, sent 'on vacation' after the Prigozhin mutiny in June, are finding it difficult to get new jobs after the Wagner Group's expulsion from the war in Ukraine.

3/ An audio message sent to Wagner members in August urged them to find alternative work to support themselves. However, this is proving much more difficult than many had anticipated, with many having to take low-paid jobs instead.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1697160640173879448

4/ Wagner members and their relatives are complaining in online forums that they are being excluded from jobs at defence companies, factories and the Russian National Guard. Instead, they're having to work as taxi drivers, construction workers and doormen.

5/ MO interviewed some of the relatives. Svetlana, the mother of one Wagner fighter, says that her son – an ex-convict – planned to take a job at a new factory building kamikaze drones in Kamchatka. Even though he had an official pardon, the owners weren't interested.

6/ "They said you'd better look for another place," Svetlana says. "They didn't even take an application."

7/ The husband of Tatyana from Tyumen had a similar experience. "He tried to get a job at a factory, corporate security refused without explanation. Now he works in a taxi, without being registered."

8/ MO contacted a recruitment agency working for the Chernyshev military engine plant. It was told that the company's corporate security department "does not let in candidates with convictions for theft, drugs and murder, even those who have been pardoned."

9/ It appears that at least some of this may be due to pressure from Russian state security. MO was told by an agency handling recruitment at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport that "the FSB constantly turns away such candidates. We really need people now, but we are forced to obey."

10/ This is the latest indignity to befall the former mercenaries. It was reported earlier that wounded Wagnerites had been evicted from hospitals with unhealed wounds and denied payments for ongoing medical care.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1698060278145945947

11/ Even Burger King (which still operates in Russia, due to the local franchisee refusing to obey the US parent company's order to shut down) isn't taking Wagnerites. An agency recruiting "assistant cooks" refused to consider an application.

12/ "The company’s security service decides everything. We still have couriers, maybe they'll hire a courier," a representative told MO.

13/ Not surprisingly, relatives are upset and have been filling chat rooms with complaints. Elena Maksikova writes: "My son works, but it's a shame that they were promised a life with a clean slate and [the authorities] failed to fulfil their promises ...

14/ "And there is no need to write again for the hundredth time that it is not possible to remove a criminal record from the database and the guys did not understand correctly. They were promised and they believed! But in fact they were deceived." /end

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