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Nov 12, 2025 3:40 PM

The news is buzzing after Lavrov went missing from a Kremlin meeting and the G20 delegation

But most people don’t know that over the last 2 years, and in recent weeks, Generals were fired or arrested, Putin’s inner circle was purged, and oligarchs continue to flee or mysteriously fall out of a window.

Artem Dikarev, aka ‘The Russian Dude’, says Russia’s economy is beginning to crack, and even Putin’s closest allies are terrified.

We cover:

•⁠ ⁠Why Russia’s internal purges are exploding again

•⁠ ⁠The friction between the FSB and the army

•⁠ ⁠Why the National Guard is arming tanks to defend Moscow

•⁠ ⁠How Lavrov’s mysterious disappearance set off new rumors inside the Kremlin

•⁠ ⁠And why Putin’s biggest threat isn’t Ukraine, it’s his own people

Artem says Putin has built a system that survives on fear and silence.

But when fear turns inward, collapse always follows.

00:00:24 - Almost every single Russian knows somebody who knows somebody who died in the war

00:00:56 - It's very hard to speak against Putin. He has always been paranoid, and now it's just more than ever

00:04:21 - As soon as they start showing protest, people going to start thinking we are not alone

00:11:50 - The most dangerous part for Putin is not that he can lose, it’s the people, because they’re the ones who can take him out of power

00:07:08 - Not a single friend openly supports the war anymore

00:19:04 - As soon as Prigozhin was two or three hundred kilometers away from Moscow, the entire Kremlin pretty much was empty

00:21:09 - It is a wartime economy. It can only survive and last for as long as there is war going on, loyalty means almost nothing inside the Kremlin walls.

00:30:15 - As long as you act like a clown, you’re no longer a threat to Putin

00:40:04 - Maybe something is happening. Some smaller generals feel unsatisfied.

00:46:00 - Dikarev: "I focus on saving the reputation of Russians in front of the world."

00:48:00 - Dikarev: "I don’t want the aggressors to win. I don’t want Ukraine to lose. I just don’t want Russia to lose."

00:58:08 - Now China and India can dictate the rules to Russian oil prices

01:01:04 - Prices in stores are already in yuan. Restaurants have Chinese signs first, then Russian

01:00:12 - Putin will do everything possible to find new customers

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