Aaron Korewa: How Putin shot himself in the foot
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in Dushanbe on Sept. 15.
Russian propaganda managed to surpass its own absurdity when the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, claimed that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk fought alongside rebel forces in both Chechen wars. Yatsenyuk supposedly tortured and executed Russian soldiers there. This apparently took place in the mid-1990s when Yatsenyuk was a 20-year-old law student in western Ukraine with no military training. He also worked for a law firm which for some reason never noticed his absence.
