Moscow’s fixation on regime security and the interaction between domestic and foreign policy has been continually highlighted across the past decades and currently continues apace.
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In March 2021, Russian troops began assembling the border with Ukraine and planning military exercises with Belarus. Talk of an invasion into Ukraine grew.
The chances of Paul Whelan’s return may be bound up in Russia’s desire to free Vadim Krasikov, 57, convicted last year in Germany for the broad-daylight slaying of a former Chechen leader in 2019.