During a panel discussion on Russian television, two politicians surprisingly openly criticized the conduct of the war in Ukraine. But criticism of Putin is not. Rather, it is resorting to an old tactic: the good tsar, the bad boyars is the motto.
Russia: How Putin grows into state TV
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