INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
One in two decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2023 was classified, the independent news website Mediazonareported Tuesday,
classified by counting the number of missing documents from publicly available records.The outlet also noted that the number of decrees
issued last year by Putin remained virtually unchanged, totaling 997, up by just one from the previous year.In 2022, when Russia launched
classified presidential decrees in a single year was set at the height of the Second Chechen War in 2001.Presidential decrees in Russia can
be classified for a number of reasons, such as when rewarding troops or pardoning convicted criminals who agree to fight in Ukraine,
