Russia

Putin Sends His Man to Dagestan to Try to Tame a Hotbed of Corruption and Jihadists

MOTHER’S HEART

Many in Dagestan hope that 68-year-old Gen. Vladimir Vasilyev will put an end, at last, not only to lawlessness in the local government but in the law enforcement agencies as well.

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