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Chaos in the Kremlin

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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The Impact of General Suravikin's Arrest on Putin

I don't think it's a coup in the sense that pre-gosian was looking to completely topple the regime or indeed possibly Putin himself. He was trying to get Putin to replace the military leadership of the country which is a pretty big change in a place like Russia in the middle of a war. So I would call it more of a revolt than a coup. There are probably all sorts of things going on under the surface that we're not seeing or understanding. And I suspect that there was probably a falling out between Pragoshan and Shoygu over the spoils of war in Ukraine.

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