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The Russian Coup Fantasy

Barak Barfi
22 April 2022clock5 Minute Read
A barricade with many people in front of a building with a Russian flag centred and up high

Standing defiant: Russians loyal to former President Boris Yeltsin barricade the Moscow White House during the failed coup attempt in 1991. Image: David Broad / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0

Despite Moscow's many failures in its war with Ukraine, there is little chance of a Russian military coup.

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