Kremlin’s rats start fighting each other

After the attack on Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov, Prigozhin arranges a public mockery of Medvedev, who, by the way, is considered especially close to Putin.

These are extremely positive signals about the destruction of the established informal hierarchy of power in Moscow

There is no point in going deep into the fighting’s details of these rats. But these are extremely positive signals about the destruction of the established informal hierarchy of power in Moscow. For an authoritarian system, such violations are especially significant, because the entire corruption and repressive apparatus rests on informality.

Faith in Putin's omnipotence is disappearing among the Kremlin’s tops

It may also indicate that faith in Putin's omnipotence is disappearing in the Kremlin. Because those close to him are beginning to fight for a place in the sun by force and audacity, not by access to the tsar's ear.

About the author: Mykhailo Basarab, a political scientist.

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