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In Chechnya In these times was real chaos and war. There were there a lot of actors who didn't obey anyone, so, of course, there were a lot of crimes. It took a lot of effort to establish the control of the authorities over what was happening. It's hard to clearly say that Anna Politkovskaha was on Putin's orders. Alexandr Litvinenko was different case. He was an defector and former officer not a peaceful human right…
> For example Julian Assange faces the death penalty in the US I really doubt this would happen. He would probably face a lesser punishment, and you could argue about it being right or wrong, but this doesn't cancel out Russia's terrible track record.
Maybe. I wouldn't say that Russia's terrible track record relative to other countries. But I agree that there have been some bad events that we should strive to prevent in the future.