Isn't killing 298 people on a passenger plane with an anti-aircraft missile illegally brought into a neighbouring country, you know, a bit... Nazi?
What about attacking a British town with a chemical weapon and killing a local resident?
Or having a dissident shot dead in a park in the centre of Berlin?
What about killing one exiled Russian in London with radioactive polonium and another one by strangling him to death in his home?
Or invading part of your neighbour's territory and announcing that it's now part of Russia, while raiding and arresting anyone who doesn't agree or belongs to a minority group?
Or carpet-bombing Syrian civilians on behalf of madman Assad?
Or having one of your main rivals shot dead in front of the Kremlin and another one poisoned with a nerve agent and then jailed?
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Founder of the publication Sputnik i Pogrom Yegor Prosvirnin was killed falling out of a window in the centre of Moscow. A pepper spray canister was found next to his body.
But you can arrest Muslims if you think they're following the wrong doctrine.
The Memorial human rights organisation that Putin is trying to shut down tracks all the arrests of Muslims who are accused of belonging to "Hizb ut-Tahrir" and other banned sects that may not even exist.
A court in Petrozavodsk has just sentenced Gulag historian Yuri Dmitriev to 15 years in a strict regime colony on a charge of abusing his adopted daughter that has been brought as retaliation against his discovery of the remains of people executed by Stalin.
"The fund’s purse-strings are held by Michael Wynne-Parker, boss of the British arm of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society - an organisation accused of aiming to further Russian influence in the Middle East as US control wanes."
But Mr Wynne-Parker yesterday called those claims “absolute nonsense.”
He added: “There’s no big deal here,” he said. “It is a historical society dealing with cultural issues since 1880.”
He added: “What is the Kremlin, but the headquarters of the Russian government? So of course there are members of the Russian government who are supporters of this cultural, religious organisation.”