It’s strange to me that they don’t just kill this guy. It seems like it could be done, and the apathetic Russian people would shrug and say, “That’s what you get.”
Killing him turns him into a martyr. Keeping him alive allows Putin to have a manageable amount of opposition, which he can use to give himself the appearance of a certain amount of democratic legitimacy. I’m sure there are a lot of other factors at play, but that’s my best guess.
It’s strange to me that they don’t just kill this guy. It seems like it could be done, and the apathetic Russian people would shrug and say, “That’s what you get.”
Killing him turns him into a martyr. Keeping him alive allows Putin to have a manageable amount of opposition, which he can use to give himself the appearance of a certain amount of democratic legitimacy. I’m sure there are a lot of other factors at play, but that’s my best guess.
They’re torturing him.