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Muscovites are unnerved. Petrol shortages, drone strikes, internet outages and the threat of a new round of mobilisation are making Vladimir Putin’s war harder than ever to ignore.
As we report,
dissent is becoming more open.
On
today’s episode
of The Insider, Zanny Minton Beddoes is joined by The Economist’s Russia experts to discuss Andrey Melnichenko. The oligarch fears for his country’s future, and has shared with us his vision for what must change. It is an extraordinary intervention. Watch from 6pm London time.
Iranians, meanwhile, have for days been mourning their slain supreme leader. Officials claim it was the largest state funeral in history. Ali Khamenei’s coffin travelled for six days over 2,600km, across five cities and two countries. The ceremony served as a rallying cry for
another confrontation
with America. | 
