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Inside Putin’s mind: the lessons of Chechnya

The lessons of Chechnya

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

As far as Vladimir Putin is concerned, ‘we are nobody, while he who chance has enabled to clamber to the top of the pile is today Tsar and God’. So said Anna Politkovskaya, the eminent Russian journalist, in her book Putin’s Russia. She continued: ‘In Russia we have had leaders with this outlook before.

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