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In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin Spat

In Moscow's Shadows

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Is the Economy Really Changing?

Underneath this dead carapace of orthodoxy, we are seeing actually increasing tensions and rivalries and disagreements within the elite. A lot of these are essentially self-interested. They are people trying to dodge the blame for things going wrong or indeed claim the credit for those few things which do. It's much more like in this respect than 1990s. People aren't yet turning to car bombs and similar indiscriminate measures because that would make it look as if the state was not in control. But on the other hand, shall we say bespoke assassinations and other ways of bringing pressure to bear, they are very, very definitely back on the agenda.

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