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The Kremlin “hopes to consolidate sections of society on the issue of foreign encroachment on Russia’s sovereignty,” said analyst Dmitry Oreshkin. “The Kremlin narrative is: ‘there are enemies all around, so we must rally around our leader’.”

However, Mr. Putin’s tactic had a bad downside: it provoked a split in the Russian elites. For the first time in recent history, several senior ministers, including a Deputy Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, registered their opposition to the orphan