Epstein Secrets

same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kremlin's conduct of the war in Chechnya. Putin moved quickly to change these conditions. He reorganized and exerted tighter political con- trol over state-owned television stations, broug

ia Daily Monitor. No- vember 14, 2014, https://iamestown.ore/program/protectine-the.mothertand-russias-counter-color-revolution.military-doctrinet 2. Leon Aron, 'Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy; American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https-f/www asintg/oublication/ drivets•pfrputins-foreinpolicy/2

nemies. In 2004, Russian secret agents assassinated Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a warlord and vice president of the EFTA00706395 breakaway republic of Chechnya, as he ferried his 13-year-old son down the streets of Doha and away from the mosque where they had just participated in Friday prayers. An intense

President's attention in the region for the next three years. Yet three years is a long time to fill a power vacancy in the Middle East. And while Leon Aron exaggerates slightly in his assessment that, after the Syrian chemical deal, "Russia is on equal footing now as a power in the Middle East," he rig

he same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kremlin's conduct of the war in Chechnya. Putin moved quickly to change these conditions. He reorganized and exerted tighter political con- trol over state-owned television stations, brough

Daily Monitor, No- vember 14, 2014, https://jamestown.org/program/protecting-the-motherland-russias-counter-color-revolution-military-doctrine/. 2. Leon Aron, “Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy,” American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https://www.aei.org/publication/ drivers-of-putins-foreign-policy