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Russia is primitive sovok heda, they have enough brutes and thugs. Plus inside the country, Siberia there aren't much opportunities, and a pay in a tchvk could be a big draw. They are also insensitive savages. Russian companies can probably draw on Central Asians, from the *stans too.
Westerners are soft.
Machiavelli already wrote half a millennia ago that mercs are shit, and only good in making you poor. They don't want the danger they want to live from the money they earn. Right now they have a good reputation of being efficient, but this is just a relative worth, since the rest of the soldiers and armies are so shit.