'There were and are officials inside the Kremlin that are totally against the war,' the former head of Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service told Newsweek.
have leveraged the war to their own political advantage, but most of Russia's billionaires are more concerned with their wealth.
"In a case where we had more pressure from inside the Kremlin, from the intelligence services, then we could see something forming against Putin. But at this point, I don't see it happening in the near-term future."Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an expanded board meeting of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow on March 15, 2023.
"Russia is moving towards a total dictatorship," Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service said in its 2023 report."The prospects for the current regime collapsing and the country democratising are slim despite the problems caused by the war and Western sanctions. On the contrary, an even more radical faction is rising to the fore in Russia's ruling elite."
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