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How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991

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The Role of the Russian Armed Forces in the Putin World

The only kind of opponents that one can see to Putin at the moment are those on sort of the hard line side, as it were. The liberal opposition has been completely crushed or gone into exile abroad. So that is very, very different situation from what was the case 30 years ago. And Peter, if you are planning a coup, if you want it to be successful, I suppose there are a couple of things that you've really got to have a grip on - probably the army.

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