Feral Jundi

   This is a continuation of the video I posted earlier about this company.  This kind of reminds of another article I wrote in regards to PMC versus PMC. Not in the way of Blackwater fighting Oryol on the battlefield, but in the way of competing with them on the battlefield of market share. That the German Landsknecht defeated the Swiss Guard back during the Italian wars, by copying the Swiss (all the way down to the uniforms), being cheaper than the Swiss (thus gaining more experience with more jobs), and finding an innovation that gave them an edge over the Swiss (firearms).

    In this case, this company wants to take market share in Iraq by doing a better job of the task than the top British and American companies. Competition is what drives innovation, and these guys sound hungry. Although I will have to say that they will have to work very hard to find the one or two innovations that will make them competitive in this market.  They are dealing with some very advanced and successful companies in this industry, and Oryol will definitely have to find a niche to get a seat at the table. –Matt

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Former Russian soldiers ready to take on Blackwater in Iraq

06 October, 2009, 19:50

A group of former Russian soldiers is involved in an intense military training program in preparation for Iraq. They believe they can compete with their British and American counterparts by adopting a unique approach.

The training of the Oryol anti-terror centre may seem like an intense action scene from a Hollywood blockbuster movie, but in fact it is to prepare Russian men to work in Iraq…

“Before we send people there, we put them through some serious training. This includes psychological training and an educational program,” says Sergey Epishkin, head of Oryol anti-terror training centre. “In our classes, we even speak the way they speak in this particular region. If you can’t master local slang, you can run into a serious trouble sometimes.”

And to avoid such trouble is the chief responsibility of this group. These men are from the anti-terror group Oryol and, much like their infamous, American counterpart “Blackwater”, they provide private security for Russian engineers and businessmen operating inside Iraq.

“I firmly believe Russians can do a lot in the Middle East, much more than our American and British colleagues. Local people treat us much better – both police and the opposition. We are there with a peaceful mission. We help rebuild power plants,” says Sergey Epishkin.

The guys from Oryol go through highly-specialized training, under very tough conditions. They are true professionals, but to understand why these guys do what they do, one has to take a look at the individual men who do the job.

The company is entirely made up of ex-military officers who wanted an outlet to continue to use their skills.

“The potential of Russian special units is really unlimited. The reform [of the Russian military], with all its mistakes, left a good number of skilled professionals without a job,” Sergey Epishkin says.

And even though they have soldiers’ backgrounds, one of their main strategies is a unique form of diplomacy.

“We establish a good relationship not only with the Americans and the British, but with the Iraqi police and National Guard as well. To be frank with you, even with opposition forces. In such a region, it is important to find a common language with people,” explains Sergey.

The Oryol team considers their mission a peaceful one, making every attempt to restrain from using force, even under stressful conditions.

“It’s hard when you are driving, and you’re tense, and all of a sudden you see a boy running across the street ahead of you with a plastic bag. You can’t help it, you get scared. You don’t know if it’s just a boy or a terrorist,” says Oleg Maslov, a trainer from the Oryol Anti-Terror Training Centre.

“We don’t know what’s in his bag. That too is hard. The most important thing is not to panic, not to pull the trigger,” Maslov continued.

And though it is an emotionally taxing job, in many ways these guys are pioneers, paving the way for more Russian companies to help rebuild Iraq.

Story here.

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Letter of explanation (Oryol)

Initiated by the public Organization of the ex-military detachments of special appointment, the Non-governmental educational establishment the Training Center ‘Anti-terror’ (OGRN 1035753006442 of 25.12.2003) was founded in 2003.

The main aim of the center is to give assistance to the state and public institutions in providing security to the person, society and the state.

Having the necessary material and technical, scientific and methodological basis as well as professionally trained staff at its disposal, the institution carries out the activities in the following fields:

• military patriotic upbringing and  training of the young people for the service in the armed forces;

• teaching people the skills in  providing personal security, using arms and other means of self-defense in extreme circumstances;

• retraining for ex-servicemen, employees of the law enforcement bodies and other … departments;

• organizing the refresher courses for the instructors and the workers of  Non-governmental security organizations and perfecting the level of their skills;

• The basis for the academic process is law background joined with training in special skills and experience in the field of safety and security, taking into consideration the advanced foreign and home experience.

• The Non-governmental educational establishment ‘Center Anti-terror’ and the regional Public Organization of ex-servicemen of the special appointment units are the Non-governmental educational and consultative organizations that carry out the training for the servicemen of the state and Non-governmental law enforcement bodies.

• The training programs offered are mainly the result of the analysis of the situational efficiency and survival of the departments, that are engaged into combat activities, are based on the experts’ and instructors’ personal and battle experience in solving emergencies.

• The staff of experts and instructors of the center is presented by the ex-officers of the detachment of special appointment of different departments.

• The Non-governmental educational establishment ‘Center Anti-terror’ offers cooperation, providing security for the legal and physical entities in any part of the world along the following directions:

? Working out and realizing special-aim security concepts for enterprises as a whole and its constituencies depending on the specific aspects of the organization activities.

? Consulting on the questions of safeguard organization for physical eternities (VIP), enterprises as a whole and its separate detachments.

? Expert evaluation of the organization and the level of granted security.

? Testing employees in different spheres with the aim of evaluation of their qualification level.

? Carrying out academic and specialized training in the sphere of security for groups and categories of officers taking into consideration specific aspects of their activity and qualification level. The training includes ways and methods of conducting fleeting fire and fighting contacts with the psychologically steady enemies showing active resistance against the background of the tactical operative tasks executed by the detachment.

? Training the organization staff of instructors for conducting classes in special kinds of activity.

  • Center ‘Anti-terror’ is a group of companies working in the sphere of security. It includes not only detective and safeguard but also technical, law, consulting and commercial firms.

• The official representative of this group is Non-governmental educational establishment training center “Anti-terror’ that has all the necessary licenses for ensuring your security.

• The Center’s clients work in the field of banking, finance, fuel and energy, building, tourism, food industry and other spheres of Russian and international financial and economical, scientific and technical as well as humanitarian cooperation.

• The center is staffed with the commanding and private personnel of ex-servicemen of law enforcement bodies and army. The principle of the narrow specialization in  certain spheres of services among the enterprises in the group of companies makes it possible to improve the quality and professional level of the rendered services.

The Center “Anti-terror” offers its customers complete systems and decisions to ensure security including the following directions:

1. Working out the concepts of business security, taking into account the operative situation about the prospective object of safeguarding.

2. The stationary guards of the enterprises and offices of the customer’s company, convoying of the customer’s goods

The Center has great experience in  body-guarding, technical protection of banks, residential and industrial buildings, cottages and private property.

1. VIP-security.

The Center “Anti-terror” renders services of armed body-guarding by specially trained employees.

1. Technical security support, including equipping the customer’s objects with the technical guard means, systems of control and access availability, monitoring of stationary and mobile objects.

The Center “Anti-terror” carries out complex inspection of the objects giving recommendations for their technical protection.

      Our experts will help you to create a modern integrated complex uniting all security and engineering systems on the basis of a common fire alarm, providing you with a trustworthy exactly-located information about enabling of the alarm systems, fire-extinguishing, smoke removal, access control at any distance at work, at leisure, in Russia or abroad.

The center “Anti-terror” is an official dealer of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Specialized research-production company “Eleron” of the Federal Agency of nuclear energy, which provides the whole complex of technical security at all objects of nuclear power production of Russia.

5) Medical services

6) Assistance to the managers of the customer’s company in organization of its own service of economic security.

Correct evaluation of the menaces to the customer’s business, performance of required acts to protect the customer’s company with the help of our specialists show that preventive measures are much cheaper, and, as experience shows, finally they turn out to be much more efficient than the urgent measures to be taken to minimize the consequences.

7) Auditing of available systems of security.

• Checking the efficiency of the available concept of security (development of the new one)

• Expert evaluation of anti-terrorist activity in the sphere of security

• Evaluation of economic expediency of expenses on security.

8) Training and consulting of the staff of the customer’s company on the questions of security.

Selection and practicing of algorithm of actions in complicated, critical situations aimed at granting trustworthy protection of the business and organization of personal security.

Establishing of contacts with local authorities, municipal services, law enforcement bodies etc. for the solution of the questions appearing in the sphere of the business security.

9) Information-analytical work.

• investigation of counteragents of the Company and prospective business partners,

• evaluation of financial risks of the Company in every concrete case,

• collection of information on the request of the client

Efficiency of the methods of instruction and the unique character of the taught material is totally confirmed by the references of the managers of the companies and organizations, which trained their officers at the Center. More than once, the workers of different subdivisions and organizations, who were trained at the Center, have been prizewinners at the world and All-Russian professional championships in individual and team events.

      For more than three years the team of instructors renders consulting services on the questions of security of convoying humanitarian aid cargo in Iraq (via North Kurdistan from Zakho via Suleymania – Bagdad to Basra)

      The best trained staff safeguards of the Russian citizens of the heat power station “Nadzhibia” (the South of Iraq) and VIP-safeguarding of the Russian representative offices of the “Russian Engineering Company” in Bagdad.  In the time of their work they convoyed more than 30 columns with the equipment for reconstruction of electric power stations and escorted about 100 delegations.Administration of the Non-governmental Educational

            Establishment – the Center “Anti-terror”

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Essential elements “ANTITERROR”Not state educational establishmentThe educational center “ANTITERROR”(“Center-A”)302028, Orel, street of Surena of SHaumjana, 37 phone/fax 42-03-67 INN 5753033928 KPP 575301001???? 14430023 ????? 80.42 ???? 1027800000480?/? 40703810400090000048 in Branch NB ” TRUST ” in Orel??? 045402770 ?/? 30101810600000000770Director – Epishkin Sergey Viktorovich

In 2003 under the initiative of public organization of former military men of divisions of special purpose «SPETZNAZ-ROSA-ORYOL»

, at participation of the private security enterprise of Orel “Vitjaz-Patriot” not state educational establishment the Educational center “Antiterror” (???? 1035753006442 from 25.12.2003) has been created

The basic purpose of creation of the Center – rendering of assistance to the state and public institutes in the decision of a task of a safety of the person, a society and the state.

Having the necessary material and scientific – methodical base, professionally prepared personnel potential, the Establishment carries out the activity on the following directions:

-??????-?????????????? education and preparation of youth for service in armed forces; training of citizens to skills of maintenance of personal safety, application of the weapon and other means of self-defense in extreme conditions;

Retraining of former military men, employees of law-enforcement and other force departments for work in not state structures of safety;

Preparation and improvement of professional skill of instructors and workers of not state structures of safety.

The basis of educational process is made with legal preparation, and also training to special knowledge and skills in sphere of protection and safety in view of the advanced domestic and foreign experience.

In 2004 more than hundred students of the Oryol pedagogical university have successfully passed educational practice on the basis of the Center “A”.

For today the instructor structure carries out advisory services on safety issues of support of cargoes through Northern Kurdistan from of Zaho – of Sulejmanija to Bagdad in territory of Iraq, and also the most prepared staff (Basra) carries out advisory services on safety issues of the Russian citizens of thermal power station ” Nadzhibija “.

In Iraq the Center “A” densely cooperates with « Russian engineering company », « Energoinzheniring an enterprise » and representation ” Tatneft ” on a safety of the Russian experts on restoration of power, irrigational objects, oil platforms.

Development of the complex approach on the above-stated directions, renders the serious help in struggle against terrorism, assistance to strengthening of the constitutional bases of the democratic state, to the statement of principles of the civil world and the consent, development of reforms in the Russian Federation and to active participation in these processes of military men of a stock, and also assistance to the state bodies and the organizations to creation in a society of real, equal and safe opportunities for realization the of physical, intellectual and spiritual potentials by everyone, moral and patriotic education of youth, increase of political, economic, legal culture of separate citizens and a society as a whole for the blessing of Russia.

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In 2001 on the basis of the licensed Security service of Interstate financial and industrial group ” Mezhgosmetiz ” Private security enterprise ” Vitjaz-Patriot ” has been created. Employees of the enterprise, former officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB and Armed forces of the Russian Federation, have passed obligatory multilevel check on many parameters, including check on reliability and professional suitability, testing on physical and special preparation and psychological testing.

Private security enterprise ” Vitjaz-Patriot ” can give to you all kinds of armed security forces, including professional services on the organization of bodyguard and protection of material assets, including at their transportation a long distance with geography from Ural up to Kaliningrad.

In structure of our enterprise the operative services completed with on duty automobiles and group of fast reaction, working in a round-the-clock mode function. Clients of Private{Individual} security enterprise ” Vitjaz-Patriot ” long time are large commercial and financial structures of Orel and area.

Besides Private security enterprise ” Vitjaz-Patriot ” regularly carries out a task{problem} in a safety of regional commercial and industrial exhibitions and competitions, sports competitions, statements{performances} of stars of the Russian and foreign platform.

“Vitjaz-Patriot” is a member of Association of the international cooperation ” Safety of business and the person ” and actively cooperates with many structures of state security working practically in all large cities of Russia and the countries CIS. It allows to represent interests of the clients not only in territory of Russia, but also former Soviet Union.

Steady and long-term work of the enterprise in the market of services of state security allows us to render professional services on fixed and to reasonable prices. We are sure, that the flexible system of payment of rendered services can make our teamwork convenient and mutually advantageous.

“Vitjaz-Patriot” the defender, up to the last on guard of your interests.

Go to website here.