Mar 17, 2024
"The shroud of darkness from which we spent several Soviet decades trying to free ourselves is enveloping us again. Even more stories are heard of the FSB using torture to fabricate cases to suit its ideological needs, implicating the courts and the prosecutor's office as its accomplices. This is now the rule rather than the exception. We can no longer pretend that it is a random occurrence. The implication is that our Constitution is on its deathbed, in spite of all the guarantees intended to safeguard it, and the FSB is in charge of the funeral arrangements."
Putin's Russia, by Anna Politkovskaya
