Analysts and politicians in Russia are increasingly frantic about the political fallout from the country’s six-month economic crisis, judging by the number of doomsday scenarios aired recently in the press and in speeches.
Warnings of social unrest, normally limited to small opposition newspapers and liberal commentators, are now aired in the mainstream media – as are comments on the regime of Dmitry Medvedev, the president, and Vladimir Putin, prime minister.
The Kremlin is making the most pessimistic noises. A key adviser wrote last week that the economic crisis threatened to unseat the two leaders, whom, he suggested, might be swept away in an uprising financed by the oligarchs.
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