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Jeremy Putley

Jeremy Putley runs an investment company in Yorkshire, England, and writes on political theory, Chechnya and modern Russian history. His work includes “The Moral Vacuum and the American Constitution”, Political Quarterly, 1997. He has lived in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Moldova.

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Crime without punishment: Russian policy in Chechnya

Russia’s attempt to suppress the movement for Chechen independence in the past decade is marked by human rights violations on a massive scale. The rape and murder of one young Chechen woman, and its scandalous legal outcome, is emblematic not just of a savage military occupation, but of a criminal politics that deserves condemnation not indulgence from other world leaders.