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Welcome to the BDB afternoon bulletin.

For today, we have a special edition where we'll be focused on Russia's Vladimir Putin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed. Today, we're tackling a

question that's being asked with increasing frequency in international and national security circles.

That question is, is Vladimir Putin losing his grip on power? Now, this isn't about palace gossip or social media speculation. It's about

connecting the dots between a number of stories that we've been covering here on the PDB.

Suspicious deaths inside the Kremlin, a crumbling wartime economy, weakening global influence,

and signs of dissent, both at home and within Russia's elite. We may not have a

direct window into Putin's inner circle, but we can examine the pressure points, and right now,

while they're starting to multiply. We're going to start with the mysterious deaths. How's that

for a topic? Until recently, Roman Sterevoitz was Russia's

transport minister. Now, not exactly a household name, but still a high-ranking official in Putin's

cabinet who had held that position for a little over a year. Then, just days ago, he was

abruptly dismissed, and within hours of that dismissal,

well, he was dead. His body discovered in his car in Moscow with a bullet wound to the head.

Now, the official story, suicide, ironically, using a pistol that had been gifted to him by the

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