![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/putin-losing-grip-and-facing-regime-collapse-as-kremlin-predators-circle/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2_RUSSIA-POLITICS-PUTIN.jpg&description=Competing power groups are at each others' throats and weakened Russian president Vladimir Putin can no longer control those vying for position in his close circle, it has been claimedA fight for succession is said to be cranking up between key aides of Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin is losing his grip and faces his regime collapsing as "predators circle" in the Kremlin, claims a KGB expert. Yevgenia Albats, exiled editor of The New Times magazine, said competing power groups are at each others' throats and the weakened Russian president can no longer control them. Putin is facing a 'lunch of the predators' and a 'war of all against all' in his circle. More than two decades ago Albats wrote 'The State within a State' about how the Soviet-era KGB secret service had taken control of the new Russia. Now she sees Putin, a former KGB spy, losing his ability to control the powerbrokers amid a crisis caused by his war in Ukraine. 'The fight has begun inside the very top echelons of Russian power,' she told independent TV Rain. Read More Yevgenia Albats is editor-in-chief of the Russian political weekly The New Times ( RBC/EAST2WEST NEWS) 'We are witnessing the lunch of the predators. 'What's happening now is a key manifestation of breakdown within the power [structures]. 'And of the fact that Putin can no longer act as mediator between various interest groups - that the war of all against all has begun….' Albats, who was forced to flee Russia in September after being declared a 'foreign agent' said: 'And I want to hope this will crash this inhumane regime, [which is] killing people in Ukraine and its own mobilised people in Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, is said to be 'out of control' ( Vedomosti/EAST2WEST NEWS) '[What we now see] is war at the very top of the power echelon. 'And Putin can no longer serve as a mediator, which is his key function. 'Therefore, he [Putin] is next.' She pointed to recent incidents suggesting Putin's hold on power is d){kind=link}
Competing power groups are at each others’ throats and weakened Russian president Vladimir Putin can no longer control those vying for position in his close circle, it has been claimed
Vladimir Putin is losing his grip and faces his regime collapsing as “predators circle” in the Kremlin, claims a KGB expert.
Yevgenia Albats, exiled editor of The New Times magazine, said competing power groups are at each others’ throats and the weakened Russian president can no longer control them.
Putin is facing a “lunch of the predators” and a “war of all against all” in his circle.
More than two decades ago Albats wrote âThe State within a State’ about how the Soviet-era KGB secret service had taken control of the new Russia.