> I think oligarchs would take him down if they got offered clear road forward from current troubles (if they believed it). They can't, in the 90s oliagarchs h

> I think oligarchs would take him down if they got offered clear road forward from current troubles (if they believed it). They can't, in the 90s oliagarchs had power, not now. With Putin only his silovik cronies can do anything about him, but they won't because the system is set up so that their families would suffer from the hands of his other friends. I see this as completely lost. North Korea has a bigger chance to get a new ruler after the coup than Russia. Putin has more power than a Tsar ever had.