Around Russia Uninhabited Island of Vladimir Putin April 12, 2017 Igor Yakovenko The reaction of Putin and his surroundings to the painful death of dozens of people as a result of the chemical attack of Assad’s aviation makes the abyss between the President of Russia and the rest of the world wider and deeper. At first, when the whole world watched a video with children dying of suffocation, Midovskaya Krivlyak Zakharova said that it was “staged shots”.