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Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Mark Arsten (talk) 02:42, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I have reverted your edits to this article as well because you mostly copy-pasted John Dunlop's article which violates

Russian apartment bombings you have to re-write it in encyclopaedic style. Alæxis_¿question? 12:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply

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I reverted RAB3L's edits again as they copy verbatim or with some rephrasing the works of John B. Dunlop, Alexander Litvinenko, Jean MacKenzie. Wikipedia requires summing secondary sources up by referring to their authors inline. RAB3L's edits violate this rule and the licensing of the secondary sources by (a) presenting the authors' views as undisputed common knowledge and (b) copying their works outside quotes. --ilgiz (talk) 10:17, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Trafford09 (talk) 07:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello RAB3L. All or some of your addition(s) to Nikolai Patrushev has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Hi there, RAB3L!

I appreciate your effort to improve the article, and it's regrettable to see you

You should be aware of the specific political culture in Russia's mid and late 1990s which made the war in Chechnya a huge, huge downer. I strongly recommend you to read the 1996 cover story in the Time, "Yanks to the Rescue (Rescuing Boris)" (paywalled original) — or see the movie Spinning Boris which follows the 1996 article very closely. It's easy to see — and it's corroborated by notable analysts — that warring against Chechnya was a huge political risk at the time, the hard evidence being e.g. public opinion polls.

As Strobe Talbott suggests, Putin was lucky. He won where he could miserably fail.

Cheers!

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