This spring should have been the ultimate consecration of the power of "Tsar Putin". A kind of fireworks display, which would have combined the symbol of the grand parade of the 75th anniversary of the victory of 1945, with the "popular consultation" supposed to legitimize the constitutional coup opening the door to keeping it in business until 2036. But the master of the Kremlin encountered a virus on his way that had deeply shaken the apparently solid foundations of the "Maison Poutine".
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Struggling with Covid-19, Russian society discovered with a mixture of anger and stupor the yawning flaws in its health system, totally underfunded for decades, and the fragility - if not the inexistence - of " "vaunted by the Poutinian power, which has abandoned the management of the crisis to the governors - taking refuge in a sort of splendid detachment.
"This crisis and this period remind me a lot of 1986, when the Soviet power was hit hard by the affair of
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