Will the war in Ukraine give birth to a Russian revolution like the Russo-Japanese war which began in 1904, then the First World War, the revolution of 1917, as the opposition intellectual Andreï Piontkovski implies? in a recent show?
Or could it at least produce cracks capable of deeply shaking Putin's autocracy, preparing for Putin's collapse or his sidelining?
Even if the regime has a repressive apparatus and a propaganda machine that have so far suppressed discontent, the question of the regime's solidity is now on everyone's lips.
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By deciding to appeal to the people to continue his souring war in Ukraine, the Russian president has de facto destroyed the implicit "social pact" he made with the people by promising stability in exchange for political submission.
“
He shoots himself in the foot
,” famous opposition journalist Alexei Venediktov marveled in his…
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