Shoryugin that he's had for years now about the business conflicts that they've had. And this was an attempt to try to pressure Putin to get rid of these two guys. And it was a really dumb decision because he I think felt he was way more powerful than he really was. As we saw, Putin's reaction was the exact opposite. Shoryugin Gerasimov is still there and Progosin is no longer with us. But I do think that his death was not a direct consequence of the mutiny. I actually do think that Putin pardoned him. He did not view him in the same way that he viewed, for example, Navalny or other opponents of the regime. He understood that this was not a coup, that this was not an attempt to displace him. He still felt incredibly offended, incredibly angry that someone would confront him this way and try to pressure him in this outrageous way. But I do think that he pardoned him. I do think that there was a price for that pardon, which is that now anything that's yours is going to be mine. And you (35/57)
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