| E.N.O.T. Corp. | |
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| Единые народные общинные товарищества | |
 Logo of E.N.O.T. Corp. | |
| Founder | Igor Mangushev X |
| Dates of operation | 2011–2019[1] |
| Battles and wars | |
| Designated as a terrorist group by |  Ukraine[2][3] |
E.N.O.T. Corp (Russian:ЧВК «ЕНОТ»,romanized: ChVK «YENOT»; also frequently written asENOT Corp) was a Russianprivate military company founded byIgor Mangushev.
It undertookmercenary work inUkraine,Syria, andNagorno-Karabakh.
E.N.O.T. is an acronym of the organisation's full name,Russian:Единые народные общинные товарищества,romanized: Yedinyye narodnyye obshchinnyye tovarishchestva,lit. 'United People's Communal Partnerships'.Enot (енот) is alsoRussian forraccoon, the animal the group uses as a logo.[4]
The organisation is sometimes known as theYenot orRaccoonPMC.[5]
E.N.O.T. was founded in 2011[6] byRussian nationalist andSvetlaya Rus founderIgor Mangushev[4][7] to bring together variousDonbas-basedmilitias and give them a more official status and ability to process funds for fighter's salaries, pensions, and other social protections.[8][7] E.N.O.T. has undertaken armed activities inUkraine,Syria,Nagorno-Karabakh.[4] In 2012, the group provided military training at a gathering of right-wing militiamen to over 450 individuals, earning 1,500,000 ₽ ($86449international dollars in 2012) over the course of the three-day event.[9]
Since 2015, the group has been providing military training in camps inSerbia,Donbas andBelarus.[4] Training camp participants include children aged between 12 and 18 from Russia,Montenegro, Serbia, Belarus,Transnistria, andSouth Ossetia.[4] The Serbian training camp, operated byBosnian War veterans, was shut down by theSerbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2018 citing child abuse concerns.[4] On 7 November 2018, in response to the training of children, Russia'sFederal Security Service and police force arrested members of E.N.O.T., releasing them the following day.[4]
E.N.O.T. brands itself in Russia asрусская православная община (lit. 'Russian Orthodox community') and officially registered with theRussian Ministry of Justice in May 2016 as anon-profit organisation.[4] The official purpose was stated as the promotion and protection of patriotic youth, although as of 2018, the group had not submitted any official reports on activities.[4] Since 2015, E.N.O.T. has received support from the Russian government for activities in Syria andKarabakh.[7] E.N.O.T. was active in theRusso-Ukrainian War and supported thewar in Donbas.[7]
The company was disbanded on order of its founder and leader Mangushev some time in 2019. Afterwards, the former leadership of the company would be persecuted by the Russian government.[1] In 2021, E.N.O.T. treasurer Vladimir Morozov was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for extortion.[10] In 2022, organisation leader Roman Telenkevich was sentenced to 13 years in prison for organising a criminal community, extortion, and threatening to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.[11] In early February 2023, during theRusso-Ukrainian War, founder Igor Mangushev was fatally shot in the back of the head at a Russian vehicle checkpoint inKadiivka.[12][13] Following Mangushev's death, any remaining members still holding out were largely absorbed into other units and organisations.[1]
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