Why Chechnya conflict influences Russian action in Syria
(CNN)For Russia, the assassination of its ambassador in Turkey may only be the beginning of a new chapter in a long, gloomy book. He shouted his support for the traumatized people of Aleppo, but exactly who the killer represented is still unknown -- or if he simply acted on his own. Ghastly, theatrical and public, the murder of Andrey Karlov at an Ankara art gallery -- videoed in minute and painful detail -- marks perhaps the latest episode in Russia's long fight with Islamic radicalism, or, from the opposing point of view... Читать дальше...
