On September 1, Kimberly Marten had a new piece in Russia Matters, a project launched by the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center. In the article, titled “Why the Wagner Group Cannot Be Easily Absorbed by the Russian Military—and What That Means for the West,” Marten discusses why she’s not convinced that the Russian Defense Ministry will actually fully absorb the Wagner Group, and what this might mean going forward for US and allied interests. You can read it here.