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Russian officials are making late and half-hearted assurances that\u00a0Russia\u00a0allegedly never dealt with\u00a0Taliban\u00a0and an attempt to blame the\u00a0USA\u00a0in light of the recent international scandal, caused by the @nytimes article:\u00a0Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only is the information about lack of connections between Kremlin and these Middle-Eastern extremists is easily disprovable (full account of Taliban delegation visit to Moscow in 2019 can be found here: Russia hosts Taliban delegation following collapse of US talks<\/a>), but Russian media seem to be reluctant to employ their favorite tactic \u2013 multiple conflicting explanations of the event to draw attention from the involvement of their government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandoning the appearances seems to be the latest trend in Kremlin, the biggest event of with \u2013 recent Constitutional amendments \u2013 saw\u00a0Putin\u00a0dropping the remaining pretense of a democratic ruler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tendency can be rather alarming, especially given the fact that allegedly \u201cdemocratic\u201d Russia was frequently violating international law due to its expansionist politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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