Sacha Koulaeva is a Director of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights. But that was where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered last weekend, apparently poisoned with a nerve agent. My organization, the International Federation for Human Rights, has charted 50 new laws, designed to make dissent difficult to the point of impossible. The message is equally clear to Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist with Memorial Human Rights Center in Chechnya . Russia's military adventures, in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and most recently in Eastern Ghouta send the same message: Russia will act as it wants, when it wants, where it wants.

Source: CNN March 12, 2018 15:00 UTC