Putin’s servants began to ignore the owner. The end is near?

New signals are coming from Russia, indicating that the local elite absolutely does not need a war in Ukraine, which the international criminal Vladimir Putin unleashed, imagining himself as the great avatar of Peter I. Not for the sake of confiscating their expensive property in comfortable Western countries, they “worked” not working around in an uncomfortable Russia, where now, thanks to sanctions, it will be harder to make money. Therefore, dissatisfaction with the Kremlin’s policies is growing and may eventually bring its result in a change of government.

The site “Today” dealt with what is happening in Moscow.

What’s happening

Russian political strategist and ex-speechwriter of Putin Abbas Gallyamov in the column “Putin has lost his infallible status. Why do top officials and politicians of Russia publicly clash without regard to the owner of the Kremlin“Recalled three conflicts within the Russian elite, which have recently broken through to the public.

This is a fight between:

• Andrey Turchak, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party, with State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin;
• head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov with Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov;
• propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and Vladimir Medinsky, officially appointed by Putin as a negotiator with Ukraine.

Front or State Duma

Turchak disagreed with Volodin over whether the deputies of the State Duma should promote the Russian peace in the Donbass instead of parliamentary meetings. The speaker of the parliament demanded to stop doing tasks that are not typical for deputies.

“Such statements are made by officials who are completely out of touch with reality. I have already said that only the person who was directly there can comment on this work. speaker in the Telegram channel.

Putin’s executioner against Putin’s language

Kadyrov, on the other hand, disagreed with Peskov about Russian citizens who, instead of a “holy war with Ukraine,” went abroad. According to Putin’s press secretary, such Russians should not be immediately deleted from the citizens of Russia, they may be wrong.

“We are here with all the security forces and volunteers carrying out a special operation (this is how the Kremlin masks the war against Ukraine – Ed.) We are engaged day and night. It was possible to somehow cheer up or comment in some more delicate way, but not yours “I didn’t see the decree. Peskov’s priority scale is somehow immature, something needs to be done about it,” Kadyrov said at the time.

Peskov did not run into trouble and hastened to confess his friendship to the owner of Chechnya.

“Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov and I have very good relations and in the course of our communication we sometimes criticize each other in a friendly way“, – Russian media quoted Putin’s press secretary.

Propagandist versus Negotiator

Solovyov, for some reason, decided that he knew better whether to make concessions to Ukraine (in the face of lost battles for Kyiv, Chernigov, Kharkov and Odessa) or not.

As part of his all-Russian propaganda program “Soloviev Live”, its author called “insane” the statements of the head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinsky, that the Russian Federation took two steps towards Ukraine.

“There is no need to mislead and try to demoralize the Russian people and the military personnel of the Russian Federation with such insane messages. The task set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief must be resolved in full,” Soloviev called on the “great military strategist” to take Kyiv.

Conclusion

A week earlier, Mikhail Vinogradov, director of the Petersburg Politics Foundation, wrote that the Russian elite was in shock over the failure of their war, which, according to all their forecasts, and Western ones too, should have ended in a quick victory for Russia.

“NEUPHORIA OF THE ELITE. They never got out of the shock. More precisely, they were divided into activists, alarmists and silent people, — Vinogradov wrote in his Telegram channel. “Activism does not bring happiness, as was seen in several vivid polemics of activists last week. The alarmists also calmed down in comparison with March-April. Silent people are the hardest. They have no one to speak frankly about their two main fears – the fear of victory and the fear of defeat – with no one“.

According to Abbas Gallyamov, the outbreak of public conflicts, which representatives of the Russian elite previously did not allow themselves to go to, are obvious evidence that Putin’s role as the supreme moderator in relations between the elites is weakening.

“By making a colossal mistake and getting involved in a war that he cannot win, Putin has lost his infallible status. It cannot be said that his words now mean nothing at all, but they clearly weigh much less than before. In private conversations, he does not talk about this now If earlier the common saying was: “How will Putin decide”, now, in response to his mention, interlocutors often hear: “But what does Putin have to do with it? We need to figure it out ourselves“, writes Gallyamov in his column.

Collective leadership

According to Gallyamov, in Russia there has been a transition of power from a personalist autocracy to a regime of collective leadership of the country by those whose structures are still capable. It can be:

By the way, according to the Russian Telegram channel “General SVR”, Patrushev has already protected Putin from all contacts, from which he considered it necessary, and on himself closed the chain of transferring the decisions of the commander-in-chief to the executors. The site “Segodnya” wrote about this in the article “Putin fell ill, who is now in charge of Russia.”

Earlier, the former head of British intelligence Mi-6, Richard Dearlove, said that Putin would soon leave his post, and Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council, would replace him.

“Having made the final bet on the power resource, Putin is rapidly turning into a hostage of his Praetorians. Soon they themselves, at their own discretion, will be able to arrest any representative of the establishment, and Putin will be forced to watch all this powerlessly. Medvedev feels this with his skin and really wants to repent for his liberal past in front of them“, summed up Gallyamov.

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