Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

The Boris Nemtsov murder

Boris Nemtsov is just the latest of very many Putin opponents who have been killed: Anna Politkovskaya, Galina Starovoitova, Igor Domnikov, Sergey Novikov, Iskandar Khatloni, Sergey Ivanov, Stanislav Markelov, Adam Tepsurgayev, Sergei Yushenkov, […]

Two dictators, one Libyan and one Russian, walk together

Yesterday Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a typical piece of silly, misguided, macho posturing, said that the UN intervention in Libya was analogous to a “mediaeval call for crusades”. Just how […]