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It's not only the ongoing war. Russia's leadership seems to be enganged in state terrorism for several decades now. Here's an interesting interview with Catherine Belton a journalist and author who did year long research on that matter:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-07/catherine-belton-vlad...

Even if only half of the claims is true it's IMO quite justified to call Russia a terrorist state.