#Chechnya

“He may see himself as a Tsar, but he is a slave of war,” President Zelenskyy said regarding the Russian leader at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, adding that Putin “cannot imagine life without power or after power.” How many wars has Russia been in since Putin came to power?

A campaign of repeated vandalism against a memorial honoring journalist Anna Politkovskaya has reignited concerns about the persistence of neo-Nazi networks in Russia—and the state’s failure to protect the memory of a reporter who documented war crimes and challenged a Russian leader’s rule.