Since the Kremlin launched the large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, socio-economic and political tensions have been growing in Russia, increasing the probability of a revolutionary situation. Russian political and business elites in the regions are not consolidated in solving general nat.
We are in total political isolation and the whole world is against us. Former Russian colonel and military analyst Mikhail Khodarenov publicly criticized Russia s invasion of Ukraine on Russian state TV and conceded that the country is losing in Ukraine, adding “An armed conflict with Ukraine is no.
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Fall of the empire? Ethnic separatism on the rise in Russia
Far from being a unified state, Russia is full of federal subjects many of which have spawned separatist movements. Moscow, far from Siberia or the Caucasus and focused on Ukraine, is finding it harder to contain them, writes Pavel Lysyan.