We rub them out in the outhouse - #Putin said of #Chechens he accused of terrorism in October 1999. The phrase got picked up by #Kukly, a satirical puppet show on #NTV - the privately-owned independent channel, that was a firm favourite with #Russian liberal audiences - a bit like ‘Spitting image’ in the UK or Les Guignols in France. The show depicted Putin as an evil gnome who a group of villagers mistook for a beautiful young man