As Vladimir Putin orchestrates the transition that will mark the end of his presidency, he is smoothing his path with his long-used strategy of creating rifts between senior officials to maintain his own supremacy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-sows-discord-in-kremlin-to-remain-russias-no-1-11583424937
https://www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2020/03/06/1831487.html
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5E627A8363F68
Two tetchy autocrats, one propped-up tyrant and a big bloody mess
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/manipuliaciji-i-sabotazh-rosiji-proty-mh17/30470728.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/05Mar2020/foreignpolicy/liberals.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4276815
https://lenta.ru/articles/2019/03/05/posle_stalina/