'It is a peculiar myth that everything in Russia depends on Putin'

By Nick O'Malley
Updated June 13 2017 - 9:43am, first published May 26 2017 - 6:21pm

There was a moment in 2012 when to the protesters on the streets of Moscow it looked as though Vladimir Putin's Kremlin was going to fall.

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