Putin has lost control of his propaganda: the Kremlin continues the struggle "elite" - isw

Analysts also believe that there is a confrontation between Putin's immediate surroundings. The next ISW report states that the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova confirmed the fact that the struggle continues within the Kremlin environment. Analysts also indicate that the Kremlin has lost control of the Russian information space. And it seems not that Putin has not yet affected the current situation.

The report of American analysts states that according to Maria Zakharova, Moscow cannot go the way of the USSR of Stalin and create a modern counterpart Radinformburo for the centralized management of the Russian information space because there is a struggle between unnamed "elites" in Putin's environment.

According to experts with ISW, this statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation confirms their estimates about the deterioration of the Kremlin regime and the dynamics of control over the information space. That is, in the Kremlin there is a struggle within Putin's immediate surroundings and the President of the Russian Federation subsequently lost control of propaganda and gave way to control over the information space in the country in many quasi -dependent entities.

And now Putin is not able to return this control. ISW analysts cannot understand why Zakharova has openly recognized existing problems. Experts suggest that the Foreign Ministry representative may have been publicly argued about the current situation in order to hold back the expectations of Russian nationalist bloggers about the current opportunities of the Kremlin to unite around a single narrative or a single policy.