Our way of life is worth defending: Liberal values under attack

When Russia’s fourth-term dictator President Vladimir Putin poured his particularly chilling scorn on the idea of liberalism last week his demeanour, his stone-cold certainty suggested he is not a man to tolerate opposition.

Russia’s role in massacres in Grozny and Aleppo, and today in Idlib, and the deaths of Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Nemtsov and the 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, and many more “security operations” confirm his and his unaccountable government’s indifference to the rule of law, a central tenet of liberalism.