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  • Putin ally says opposition should be tried as enemies of the people

    01/17/2016 12:39:30 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    Reuters ^ | Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:31am EST | Andrew Osborn
    One of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile allies has accused the opposition of trying to exploit the economic crisis to destabilize the country, using Stalin-era rhetoric to suggest unnamed individuals be put on trial for sabotage. Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, called the liberal opposition, which has only one lawmaker in the 450-seat parliament, enemies of the people, a phrase recalling language used during the reign of terror unleashed by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in the 1930s. ...