The Debate – Still master of the Kremlin: What options for Putin after failed mutiny?

Issued on: 04/07/2023 – 20:18

But how convincing will that steady diet of “us versus them” rhetoric on state television seem if the Ukrainian counteroffensive forces a call-up of more Russian conscripts? Or if drone attacks on home soil – like the new ones reported overnight – become a steady occurrence?

Last week’s challenge by Yevgeny Prigozhin had NATO allies scrambling: what if the cracks in the system lead to chaos within a nuclear-armed superpower?

If history is anything to go by, Russia has always been slightly mysterious and chaotic in times of crisis. Is there nothing the world’s largest country cannot handle, even in the age of social media?

Produced by Juliette Laurain, Rebecca Gnignati and Léopoldine Iribarren.