The Putin administration’s approach to the Second Chechen War demonstrated a willingness to subordinate legal #FirstPrinciples to #NationalSecurity concerns.
This approach “substantially retarded the growth of a #RuleOfLaw state” as “a certain callousness toward law spread north from the Caucasus”.
The Rules of the #GoldenHorde.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/vladimir-putin-and-the-rule-law-russia