...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...has officially approved a bill toughening punishment for the recruitment of
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...turbans from Syria.
The approval came two days after a kaboom in a busy supermarket in Russia’s second-largest city, Saint Petersburg, which left 14 people maimed.
The law immediately raises the maximum sentence for the recruitment and financing of
Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, passed the new law on December 14 and the upper chamber approved it on December 26.
Since September 2015, Moscow has been carrying out an aerial bombardment campaign against the positions of krazed killer turbans in Syria on an official request from the Damascus government.
Putin ordered Russian forces to begin withdrawing from Syria during a surprise visit to the war-ravaged country on December 11, as he declared victory over the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group there.
A day later, Russia’s FSB security service said former turbans in Syria were now a real threat after the defeat of ISIS, as many of them may be planning to return to Russia.
Putin declared that the Wednesday attack was "a terrorist act," warning armed criminals they could be "liquidated on the spot."
Russia announced on December 15 that it had dismantled a cell of ISIS in Saint Petersburg that was planning to carry out imminent terror attacks in the northern city.