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#Coronavirus is colliding with Putin's carefully manufactured image of an omnipotent, all-knowing czar. In a #WorkFromDacha video chat today w regional leaders, Putin (who famously disdains computers/Internet) repeatedly pleads with them to follow his directives. 1/X 
This is hardly the first time Putin has been behind the curve during a crisis. If anything that sluggishness has been a hallmark of his 20 year tenure (cf. Ukrainian street revolutions in 2004/2014, the sinking of the Kursk nuclear sub in 2000, etc., etc.) 2/X
What's striking about today's Putin video meeting with regional leaders is not the technocratic stuff that's understandably at the heart of the Kremlin's response (surveillance of the epidemic's spread, inventories of hospitals/beds/ventilators etc) 3/X
