Putin parades ‘Litvinenko assassin’ on TV to rant nuke war would see ‘Russians go to heaven and West banished to hell’

If the officers themselves act corruptly, that further weakens the state's capacity for military action,

Barrington added

It is a feature of corrupt regimes that they prize loyalty over effectiveness, which can undermine any function of the state including the military,

said Robert Barrington, professor of anti-corruption practice at the University of Sussex, in the U.K. in an email to Newsweek on Friday

The [Russian] MOD's effort to revive the brigade's image likely reflects concern about the way in which its failures were being increasingly associated with Russian senior military leaders,

the ministry said

Muradov was suspended because he was a crazy idiot who could order soldiers to die,

one of the sources told the online newspaper