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“ Moscow has over $550 billion salted away in international reserves and the Finance Ministry says Russia could weather low oil prices for a prolonged period. Putin faces no obvious immediate threat from the opposition, which he has successfully kept down by using the levers of state power, and mass protests in 2011-12 eventually faded.

But some critics say economic upheaval and discontent over the handling of the coronavirus crisis could boil over.”

We can hope.