In this last part of his conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Christian Caryl, Columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine, reflects on what the sanctioning of a 17-year-old researcher by Russia reveals about the fragility of Putin’s system.
For Caryl, the episode is more than a curious story. It shows how Russia’s own corruption, black-market networks and institutional loopholes have made sensitive information accessible to open-source intelligence communities.
Behind the image of stability projected by Vladimir Putin, Caryl sees a chaotic and volatile system whose weaknesses are increasingly visible. Russia, he argues, may still muddle through for a while — but authoritarian systems can also reach a tipping point very suddenly.
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