The West risks creating a 'Snow ISIS' in Europe with extremists going to fight in Ukraine, similar to the situation when the US trained and equipped "moderate" Syrian rebels in a failed attempt to overthrow President Bashar Assad, leading to many of these fighters joining al-Qaeda.
A new assassination attempt shook Russia last week, targeting a prominent civilian figure — this time, writer Zakhar Prilepin, whose car was blown up in Nizhny Novgorod region.
The hit, which Prilepin survived,...