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☆ Analysis: Why Viktor Bout's return to Russia is so important for Vladimir Putin
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh International Security Editor | Nick Paton Walsh | International Security Editor | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
On the surface, Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout are accused of ludicrously different crimes. Bout’s outsized importance to Russia has always been the bigger puzzle. I have seen videos of Bout in the Congo and across Africa, where he was pretty close to the conflicts there. There were suggestions too that he had served alongside senior Russians who are now close to President Vladimir Putin. This is a man who many ordinary Russians may have heard of, and he certainly is of mythological importance to the Russian elite.
☆ Blasts deep inside Russia hand Putin a fresh problem, with no obvious answer
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh International Security Editor | Nick Paton Walsh | International Security Editor | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Moscow’s accusation that Ukrainian drones struck two airbases deep inside Russia has once again raised the febrile question of escalation nine months into the war. Footage on Russian media shows the aftermath of an alleged drone strike Tuesday at an airfield in Kursk, Russia. Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blasts, in keeping with Kyiv’s policy of official silence around attacks inside Russia or in Russian-occupied Crimea. But it is hard to know what else Russia could do to Ukraine that it has not already done. Let us first quickly discuss why a Russian nuclear strike seems off the table, at least for now.
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