Editorial: Russia sends a very clear message

THE AFTERMATH of the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nem­tsov has been chilling even by the sinister standards of Vladi­mir Putin. Ten days after the gangland-style hit on a bridge near the Kremlin, police arrested and charged several ethnic Chechens, including one who was said to have confessed. That man, Zaur Dadaev, turns out to be the former deputy commander of an elite police squad controlled by the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a fierce Putin loyalist. Mr. Kadyrov quickly praised the suspect as “a real patriot of Russia.” Mr. Putin, meanwhile, chose Monday to present Mr. Kadyrov with an Order of Honor, along with Andrei Lugovoi, the leading suspect in the 2006 London murder of another Kremlin critic.Read full article >>

















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