Bohdan Nahaylo: The real face behind the masks of Putin’s Russia in Sevastopol (20.03.2014, Photo)

Source: https://www.facebook.com/bnahaylo/posts/509517285820041?stream_ref=10

Photos: Scanpix/NTB

These shocking pictures are not of Somali pirates – but of Russian forces seizing Ukrainian naval vessels moored in Sevastopol. This is the the real face behind the masks of Putin’s Russia – piracy, aggression, annexation, a cynical confidence that might is right and that the bigger the lie the more people at home and abroad will believe it.