Putin. War
2015 report
Putin. War (Russian: Путин. Война) is a report based on materials prepared by the Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov about the 2014–present Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Published on the website Putin. Itogi on 12 May 2015, it covers the preparations for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the involvement of Russian troops in the war in Donbas. The report includes testimonials of Russian soldiers taken prisoner in Ukraine and photos of Russian military personnel who died in the hostilities.
Authors
Boris Nemtsov began working on the report at the end of January 2015. After Nemtsov's assassination, his close associate Ilya Yashin headed a team of opposition journalists and activists, who continued writing the report and prepared it for publication.
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The epigraph of the report is a post by Boris Nemtsov in Facebook on 31 January 2015:
The task of the opposition today is education and truth.And the truth is that Putin is war and crisis.
The report consists of a preface, 11 chapters and a conclusion.
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