It is hard to think of the disappearance of the largest country by area in the world as a credible scenario. Yet the premise of Russia’s collapse has long haunted Russians, just as it stirred the West’s imagination. 40 years ago, a British author published a novel entitled The Fall of the Russian Empire in which he wrote: “Russia, in all its grandeur, brutality, and impenetrable mystery, has been transformed into a human volcano about to explode”.
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