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About Jeremy Putley

Jeremy Putley works for 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.

Articles by Jeremy Putley

Monday 22nd March

The rise and fall of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Does a personal vendetta lie behind the imprisonment of Russia’s once-richest oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Was the Kremlin the real power behind the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk, for which Khodorkovsky is being punished? Jeremy Putley reviews a well-researched new book by Martin Sixsmith
Sunday 27th July

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.
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