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The Chechen strongman blamed Russian officers for the loss and suggested that Putin had not been made fully aware of the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
To understand Vladimir Putin's reign, his initial popularity, and his later repressive turn, it pays to look briefly at the country he inherited from his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.
President Biden is rejecting calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Before fleeing Russia in August, Pavel Filatyev penned a bombshell exposé of how things were going for his paratrooper unit in the war in Ukraine. "The sooner Russian citizens at very least stop being afraid to say 'war' and 'we don't want war,' the sooner it will end," he said in an interview.
Since Vladimir Putin first came to power, many of his critics and supporters have died in strange and violent circumstances. But the fiery death of Darya Dugina is different.