him at all? look, i think we have to understand this is a leader who has been acting as a war criminal throughout his reign. he rose to power by helping to orchestrate the bombing of two apartment buildings in moscow, killing hundreds of his own citizens as a prelude to the chechen war, the second chechen war where he leveled grozny. this has been consistent. we have to understand that vladimir putin s rise is really the story of a kgb takeover of russia s failed democratic transition. and that throughout his reign we have seen him inflict this on his own people, and that s a story of vladimir putin beginning first at home, from a assassinating political opponents such as boris nemtsov, and repressing free media, assassinating political the