The Russian media has challenged the Putin regime’s peculiarly atavistic style of governance – its standing practice of rule through murder.

Kim Zigfeld at La Russophobe has professionally translated a long and insightful piece from Novaya Gazeta called ‘Spare Organs’ on the Kremlin’s ruling killers.

If you follow Russia affairs, it well worth a look here.

Komersant has another backgrounder to the current scenario, readable in English, in this post here.