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In February 2000, 200 demonstrators marched to Trafalgar Square in London to protest Russia’s brutal war in Chechnya. Check who was leading it.
Two months later, in April 2000, Corbyn puts down an EDM in parliament demanding Putin support a ceasefire in Chechnya and entry of humanitarian supplies.

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In same period, MI6 was interfering in Russian elections to help get Putin elected.
A fews later in 2003—as the brutal Chechen War rolled on—Tony Blair invited Putin to London for the 1st state visit of a Russian premier since 1874.

At that point, the British establishment thought Putin would do as he was told—and sell off his country to Western investors.
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