Bleak and bloody Russia
A PARADOX attends the parliamentary election in Russia this Sunday. The issue that most concerns people outside Russia—the war in Chechnya—is barely a matter for discussion among either the candidates or the voters. What kind of country can hold a general election without discussing a civil war whose needless brutality horrifies most decent outsiders?
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Bleak and bloody Russia”
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