In today’s #Sensemaker, 4 stories that give a sense that winter is coming for a vulnerable Vladimir Putin. From west to east:
1. Alexei Navalny is in a stable condition in Berlin’s Charité hospital after being flown there in an induced coma on Saturday to be treated for suspected poisoning in Siberia.
2. Not-so-coincidentally, a quarter of a million peaceful protesters in Minsk and other Belarusian cities have demanded that their gun-toting dictator step down after a rigged election.
3. Before his move to Berlin doctors treating Navalny switched abruptly from “medicine mode” to “cover up” mode, according to his chief of staff.
4. In Russia’s far east, daily protests over the arrest of regional governor Sergei Furgal amount to the most brazen challenge to Putin’s authority in nearly a decade.
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