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"Putin's problem is not staying in power. It is leaving it – without all hell breaking lose between rival boyars, and with his personal fortune intact. Crushing the rival bids of political nonentities like Dmitry Medvedev is child's play for him. Standing permanently on guard at the fulcrum of competing privatised arms of the state, armed with his suitcase of his rivals' commercial secrets, is a more tedious occupation. And the one thing he is petrified of is genuine political dissent which he cannot control."
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"Putin's problem is not staying in power. It is leaving it – without all hell breaking lose between rival boyars, and with his personal fortune intact. Crushing the rival bids of political nonentities like Dmitry Medvedev is child's play for him. Standing permanently on guard at the fulcrum of competing privatised arms of the state, armed with his suitcase of his rivals' commercial secrets, is a more tedious occupation. And the one thing he is petrified of is genuine political dissent which he cannot control."
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