The political scientist told what the collapse of the Putin regime might look like.
Former Russian presidential speechwriter Vladimir Putin, political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, believes that the likelihood of a military coup in Russia against the backdrop of the continuation of the war in Ukraine is growing. According to him, this moment may come within the next 12 months.
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“The state of the Russian economy is deteriorating. The war is lost. More and more corpses are returning to Russia, so the Russians will have a harder life, and they will try to find an explanation for why this is happening, looking around at the political processes, and they will answer to themselves: “Well , this is because our country is led by an old tyrant, an old dictator,” Gallyamov said, referring to Putin.
The political scientist suggests the possibility of a coup in Russia in the near future.
“On At the moment I think that a military coup will become possible. Therefore, a year later, when the political situation has changed, the country is headed by a hated unpopular president, the war is really unpopular, and for this you need to shed blood, at this moment the coup becomes a real possibility,” Gallyamov emphasized.
Gallyamov also said that he believes that Putin can abolish the presidential elections scheduled for March 2024.
“If he unnecessarily aggravates something, he can indeed cancel the elections. Without a victory over Ukraine, he will face difficulties with the Russians. The Russians do not need him if he is not strong. He can really declare martial law and cancel the elections,” he added.
Will there be a coup d'état in Russia?
Russian and foreign experts do not rule out that a real coup may occur in the aggressor state due to Russia's war against Ukraine.
An American professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, political scientist Daniel Treisman believes that the complete collapse of Vladimir's regime Putin is a more likely option for removing him from power than an armed uprising of the generals or a rebellion of the Kremlin elites.
A similar opinion is shared by Russian publicist and oppositionist Andrei Piontkovsky . This may happen due to the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front.
But the Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin said that Putin's elimination from the outside is unrealistic.
The Russian edition of The Insider, citing a secret document developed by the Kremlin, writes that Russia has already begun to prepare for a possible coup d'état. They say that the enemy can use hypnosis and religion against the Federal Protective Service.
