‘Hell’s Army’ Director on the Rise of Russian Mercenary Legion the Wagner Group, and a Warning for the U.S.: ‘This Darkness Is Coming Everywhere’ 

When Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley (“Dirty Wars”) first set out to make a documentary about the Russian state-funded private mercenary faction The Wagner Group, he believed he was chronicling a specific phenomenon. As his research progressed, he realized the film was about something much bigger: how the crumbling of our modern notion of democracy has […]

By Rafa Sales Ross