BEAR

The Battle Encounter Assault Regiment (BEAR), is a private military company (PMC) and one of the main factions in Escape from Tarkov. BEAR is employed by the Norvinsk region officials to uncover any evidence of the TerraGroup illicit activities.

Background
The BEAR private military company was established by a secret decree of the Russian Federation Government as a countermeasure against illegal activities of the TerraGroup in the Russian territory. This Russian PMC comprises ex-special forces officers from all over former soviet countries. The Bears were fighting in the Contract Wars as a Russian government proxy to uncover the illegal activities of TerraGroup Labs and bring an end to the continued armed conflict with its security subcontractor, the western-founded PMC USEC. Following TerraGroup's activity, they also operated in countries outside of Russia during that time, including Thailand, Iran and Kazakhstan where they were met with resistance from USEC.

Gameplay effects

 * BEAR players gain access to a unique skill set:

Trivia

 * BEAR is also one of the main factions in Escape from Tarkov's predecessors Contract Wars and Hired Ops.
 * In Escape From Tarkov's predecessors, Contract Wars and Hired Ops, the respective end of match victory theme song for BEAR is Bleed the Sky - Leverage
 * in some of their voicelines, BEARs sometimes refer to themselves and others as "Two Hundredth and "Three Hundreth", this is from a set of soviet code-words referring to transport of battlefield cargo, in this case soldier fatalities (200th) and woundings (300th) respectively, in soviet military jargon, this is used as to communicate that somebody is either wounded, or dead.
 * the BEAR voice "Aleksandr/Alex" is also the same voice for all BEAR classes in Hired Ops, many of the voicelines used in Hired Ops were re-used for this voice in Escape From Tarkov.