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The most interesting aspect of Moscow’s retreat from its efforts to promote a civic Russian nation is that it represents a personal defeat for Vladimir Putin.
Another Russian soldier was killed in Syria, and details of the serious wounding of a Russia general in Syria have come to light. Turkish authorities arrested a Russian woman in connection with the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara.
“The efforts of the contemporary West to discover a soul where it by nature has never been, namely in the body of a KGB lieutenant colonel, led the lieutenant colonel to be ever bolder,” says Igor Yakovenko.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed, 9 were wounded and 2 suffered concussions in battle today, March 4, the ATO reported.
A Russian general has reportedly been seriously wounded in Palmyra, the first Russian military person of the rank of general to be injured in the war.
A recent opinion poll found that 46% of Russians admired Stalin; they were indifferent to Brezhnev and really disliked Gorbachev.
US-based Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova recalls Aleksandr Shchetinin, the Russian-Ukrainian journalist behind the site Novy Region-2 who died in mysterious circumstances the day before Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed, and others who have died in the intervening period in what appear to be somewhat mysterious circumstances.
Eleven Ukrainian coal-miners have been killed and 14 injured in an explosion in Lviv Region.
President Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions is under fire for his Russian contacts; Trump taps Putin biographer Fiona Hill as White House national security aide. Russian war planes patrol the Mediterranean and three more ships have passed through the Bosphorous.
