JUST-IN: Putin Finally Loses His Iron Grip On Russia

Something is shifting in Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s iron grip on authority is still no doubt resolute, but more and more, Russians are willing to question it.

The nation’s economy is faltering, edging closer and closer to disaster, while progress in the war against Ukraine – now in its fifth year – has ground to a halt.

This month, Putin’s approval rating plummeted to 65.6 per cent – its lowest level since the start of his military campaign – and a drop of 12.2 percentage points since the start of the year.

Pro-Kremlin influencer Victoria Bonya, who promotes fitness routines and a vegan beauty brand to her 13 million Instagram followers, isn’t your typical anti-authoritarian activist.

But in a bold 18-minute video that accrued 30 million views and more than 1.3 million likes in five days, the former reality television star made a stark intervention that rattled some of Russia’s top brass.

‘The people are afraid of you, artists are afraid, governors are afraid,’ she told the president, before listing off a litany of.See The Full Details. .