News of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to classify more data on Russian military losses prompted many in Russia, Ukraine and the West to draw the facile conclusion that he acted to hide the casualties of his hybrid war on Ukraine. Putin, however, is doing something worse than that: He’s telling the country he has ruled for 15 years that he doesn’t have to account for his actions. And Russia will acquiesce, as it always does.
The legal side of things is not particularly important in Putin’s Russia
On May 28, Putin signed a decree amending a list of classified data approved …read more
Source: National Post
