Two maritime disasters serve as bookends of sorts for the two decades of Russia under Vladimir Putin’s rule.
A Chechen woman near a tank manned by Russian troops on the street of a village south of Grozny, February 2000.
, as “a key test of an emerging do-more-with-less defense philosophy of Russia’s little-known new leader.”during the launch of a test torpedo that caused a pair of explosions. After the second, much larger explosion, it came to rest in about 350 feet of water. the Russian armed forces had never recovered from the trauma of Stalin’s brutal purges of the officer ranks during the 1930s
A priest leads a service for those who died in the Kursk submarine disaster on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, Aug. 12, 2020. “Lies and fear are the features of Russian authority. Russia has been persecuting and punishing its people for so long that by now it has simply forgotten how to save their lives,” said the newspaper Izvestia, which had been a reliable Kremlin mouthpiece during the Soviet years.
“One witness at the closed meeting said Mr. Putin referred three times to the media’s treatment of the crisis, and raged at tycoons who had allegedly robbed the nation and were now manipulating public opinion,”“The government had not been guilty of deceit and incompetence during the crisis, Mr. Putin told the families. The media had created such an impression.”
Some had an obvious interest in politics, like industrialist Mikhail Khodorkovsky; others only in media or industry. Their backgrounds or ambitions notwithstanding, they represented the excesses and possibilities of the Yeltsin era. That era was now coming to an end.
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