[Mick]

Even more importantly, the "man in the street" will not be the one to bring Putin down (when it finally happens). Civil unrest may be used as an excuse (whether it exists or not), but it will be the FSB and their attached military units that make it actually happen. It may be quite civilized, it may be quite a violent mess, but those will be the guys who do it. After all, they are all that remains of "the center" :-).

Getting pretty dangerous to be Putin's "friends..."

Another Putin crony dies in mystery plunge after ‘falling from boat’ in seventh suspicious Kremlin death in months | The US Sun (the-sun.com)

[Mick]

Even more importantly, the "man in the street" will not be the one to bring Putin down (when it finally happens). Civil unrest may be used as an excuse (whether it exists or not), but it will be the FSB and their attached military units that make it actually happen. It may be quite civilized, it may be quite a violent mess, but those will be the guys who do it. After all, they are all that remains of "the center" :-).

Getting pretty dangerous to be Putin's "friends..."

Another Putin crony dies in mystery plunge after ‘falling from boat’ in seventh suspicious Kremlin death in months | The US Sun (the-sun.com)