Suddenly in Russia, everybody’s talking about a revolution.
In a country with a popular president, a growing economy and a fragmented and weak opposition, Russia does not seem ripe for the kind of revolt that toppled governments in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan over the past 17 months. But as Lenin once said, “a revolution is a miracle,” and the Kremlin and its political opponents seem bewitched by the possibility of one…
“If we do not manage to consolidate the elites, Russia may disappear as one state,” Dmitri Medvedev, the Kremlin chief of staff, said this week in a rare interview with the Russian magazine Ekspert. “The breakup of the Soviet Union will look like child’s play compared to a government collapse in modern Russia.”
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