Vladimir Putin’s forces are making less progress than he expected in Ukraine, and the Russian leader is facing a battle at home too as he bids to control public and political criticism.
Despite public protests being illegal in Russia, many Russians have risked arrest to demonstrate against the war in the streets of Moscow and other major Russian cities.
And as public pressure grows, some within the Kremlin may be starting to consider whether their leader’s grand dream of restoring the historic Russian empire is proving too expensive.Sergei Pugachev helped broker the deal between Putin and former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin that helped the former KGB officer become president in the 1990s.But Pugachev and Putin fell out in 2011 and the oligarch, now living in the US, claims Putin’s right-hand man Dmitry Medvedev is putting together a plot to oust the 69-year-old “president for life”.Another exiled Russian billionaire, Alex Konanykhin, is offering a $1million bounty for any Russian officer who can put an end to Putin’s reign.
As he put a price on Putin’s head saying it is his “moral duty” to help the “denazification of Russia”.Senior US senator Lindsey Graham has openly called for "somebody in Russia" to assassinate Putin."How does this end?
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