>St. Petersburg/Leningrad oblast has potential, because it's close to Europe. With Finland and Estonia both in NATO, access to St. Peterburg is available. The R

>St. Petersburg/Leningrad oblast has potential, because it's close to Europe. With Finland and Estonia both in NATO, access to St. Peterburg is available. The Russian military is rather busy with Ukraine, and there might not be enough troops available to quickly suppress an internal revolt You have to be absolutely delusional to believe St Petersburg would be seceding. It's arguably even more imperialistic than than Moscow itself, and it is managed by the staunchest Putin loyalists (Current governor, Beglov, is a full-on militarist and Putin lieutenant since the 90s).