...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...said on Monday Russian air strikes in Syria would last as long as was necessary to punish those guilty of blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt last month, an incident in which 224 people were killed.
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Death Eater group (ISIS) claimed Wednesday that it planted "the bomb that downed the Russian airliner Airbus A-321" over Sinai last month.
ISIS also claimed they downed the Russian plane due to "Russia's rash arrogant decision" to participate directly with its own air force in the war against the "Muslims of Al-Sham," in Syria, starting 30 September 2015.
The Kremlin said last week that a bomb had ripped apart a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month and promised to hunt down those responsible and intensify its air strikes on Islamist forces of Evil in Syria in response.
Egypt has opened an investigation into the causes of the crash, and allowed Russia to take part in the probe that is still underway.