Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty A 10-year-old is stabbed to death by a fellow student at an elite school. A teenager in an affluent village repeatedly knifes his math teacher to death. Teenage crime up almost a fifth in a year. Baby killers go free. Murderers wander the streets, pumped up from military service. And veterans commit scores of murders after returning from a brutal meat-grinder war. The dark and bloody scenario would be the stuff of nightmares and dystopian novels. But it is the reality of day-to-day life in Russia, unleashed, say critics, by President Vladimir Putin’s tactics to win the war he inflected on Ukraine. Read more at The Daily Beast.