Awe. You are probably new to the news there. I was involved in Russia a long long time ago and still speak it fairly well.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/776355/posts
Back in the 90s the Chechens were kidnapping young Russian children from Moscow, then videotaping themselves slowly sawing a finger off a child.
Those chechens , clearly laughing in the video, escaped to UK. Vanessa Redgrave and her pals protected them and the UK denied extradition to Russua for a trial.
The Baltics and UK have always been russophobic, despite overwhelming evidence of brutality of chechens.
The radical Chechens were almost funny in videotaping themselves so clearly and metaphorically shooting themselves in the foot. When UK organized and sent aid workers to restore power to cities that Russia had bombed...the Chechens kidnapped the men, demanded huge ransoms, then cut off their heads and posted them on poles on a highway.
No one knows if the ransoms were paid...
And actually one six year old girl, daughter of a well-known journalist in Moscow, who had been kidnapped and had fingers sawed off, wanted to tour the US with her father to speak.
But they were denied entry.
The US in those days was pretty pro-chechen as well.
And people wonder why Russia turned away from the west and made good friendships with China, Iran, etc.
Just as Serbia did after we bombed them.
A little fun history for you.
“The Baltics ... have always been russophobic”
Gee, I wonder why that might be??? Real friggin stumper there.
