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How Vladimir Putin's Russia has become increasingly unstable

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  1. Kuromantis
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    Unfortunately the video's 3 years old so a few things (Russian sanctions lifted by Trump, who is might be his biggest political win in his lifetime, Medvedev being a likely sucessor to Putin) have...

    Unfortunately the video's 3 years old so a few things (Russian sanctions lifted by Trump, who is might be his biggest political win in his lifetime, Medvedev being a likely sucessor to Putin) have changed but I presume the general situation is the same.

    A video explaining how Russia's economic struggles are converted politically into an increasingly unstable and dissenting oligarchy and a more unstable public.

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  2. unknown user
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    The FSB thing I wasn't even aware of. If that's true, this paints a dire picture of Putin's situation: if his own enforcers can bite at him, how good are his chances? Which isn't to say he's going...

    The FSB thing I wasn't even aware of. If that's true, this paints a dire picture of Putin's situation: if his own enforcers can bite at him, how good are his chances?

    Which isn't to say he's going to fall any time soon, or be replaced – I'm not qualified to say either – but it does expose the cracks in the armor that he's been putting on.

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