Basically you want to blame Russia only
Well, since Putin is arming Iran and the Taliban, since he’s killing Ukrainians and taking part of their country without provocation, for starters, I’d say he deserves a lot of blame. I’m more about ideas. You’re more about loyalty to Putin even though his behavior is murderous and his ideas are autocratic and oligarchical.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-safety-vladimir-putin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902604.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11212072/Russian-actor-and-Putin-critic-found-dead-in-Moscow.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya
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November 1998 - Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg.
April 2003 - Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission” which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs
July 2003 - Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Dumaand the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. After his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium” (a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).
June 2004 - Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg.
July 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow.
September 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff OlegRibachuk suggests that the poison used was amycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,” a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.
September 2006 - Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow.
October 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow.
November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.
On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.
On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.
http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/ Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1401997313#XRRREys6DwG6l1tA.99 In 2013, the last US tanks left Germany. The trajectory was clear and obvious to everyone. NATO was going to continue to shrink; it was a threat to no nation. Most nations in Europe were not even meeting their minimum target of 2% defense spending. Obama had promised just prior to the 2012 election to be even more agreeable with Putin. Hillary planned a reset with Putin that was to pivot the US more toward Asia.
What changed all of that? Well, the people of Ukraine made the mistake of wanting a peaceful reset of their own. They wanted to integrate with the European Union. They wanted more trade and freedom. In 2014, Ukrainian President Yanukovych attempted to pursue that path. Putin stopped him. Yanukovych did a 180 degree turn to satisfy Putin. The people of Ukraine overthrew Yanukovych. They were smeared by the Putin propaganda machine, but they did it on their own. Most of the Ukrainians remember very well Russia and the Holodomor and the deliberate starving of millions of Ukrainians. They remember too Russia's installing of communism on them and their post WWII brutality to the Ukrainian people. These people see themselves as a part of the West, not the Czarist-loving, Stalin-loving, Putin-loving benighted reactionary political culture of the East. They seek a life of freedom and liberty.
It was in this context that despite a treaty with Ukraine (where Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons for Russian promises) and despite the fact that the two nations were at peace, Putin invaded Crimea and broke off a hunk of the Ukrainian nation. Using his so-called "little green men" and other implausible denial techniques, Putin brazenly lied and said he had nothing to do with it. Not long after this, Putin started another undeclared war on Ukraine in the east of that nation that has led to 1.7 million Ukrainians being displaced.
These actions have naturally frightened many nations in Europe as Putin continues his theft of Russian property at home and war abroad. His undeclared wars on other nations and peoples continue to prop up dictators, to align Russia with the mad mullahs of Iran, and to distract the Russia people from Putin's crimes. Who will be the next country to be bombed like Grozny or Aleppo? Once a nation like Putin's decides that mass killing of civilians is a way to conduct just wars, disregarding the Just War Theory of Christianity, then you know that it's just a matter of time before Putin can unleash is war machine on some other nation that doesn't do as he says.