Russia General Discussion

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Khodorkovsky annonced this weekend that he is creating his own party to bring the opposition together and that he might become president one day, and a real anti-war demonstration took place in Moscow.
It looks like a new battle between Putin and the oligarchs+liberals is going to take place.

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What happened with Yanukovych can happen in Russia. It's the same situation, the same kind of people doing the same things, with everything "bigger" in Russia. But it took the Ukrainians 10 years, two "revolutions" and tens of deaths to get rid of Yanukovych, and it is unclear how far Putin would be ready to go against his own population (it is easy to jail divisive figures like oligarchs or the Pussy Riot girls, but what about "good russians" like the soldiers's mothers or normal students).