With every passing year, the Putin regime engages in thuggish acts that turn the once-unthinkable into dreadful new norms. To cite just a few examples, the past decade has seen the cut off of gas to Europe, the invasion of Georgia, the state-sanctioned killing of Sergei Magnitsky, the expulsion of USAID because of its support for civil society and rule of law, the assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, cyber-attacks on Estonia, violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, the invasion of Ukraine, the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 – and, on Friday, the murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Source: Foreign Policy
