Peak Putin?

When there are protests in places like Chita and Barnaul, you know that a lot of people are running out of patience.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the young whom Putin must fear, writes Gwynne Dyer, because they are less impressed by hollow foreign triumphs in places they don’t care about, and more unhappy about an economic future that leaves most of them bumping along the bottom. He has had a long run in power—17 years and counting—but his future is probably a lot shorter than his past.Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 3, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—The crowds of protesters in Moscow and other Russian cities were far bigger the last time, in 2011-2012. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was so intoxicated by the 40,000 or 50,000 citizens who demonstrated in Moscow against Vladimir Putin’s rule that he boasted: “I see enoug...

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