All right, Alexander. Let's answer the questions from the live stream with Robert Barnes.

And let's begin with Nikos.

This is a four-part question, Alexander.

You've expressed that Putin is taking risks by indulging Trump.

Now Trump has once again insulted Putin.

Is there a danger of a Brezhnev-style coup?

I say this because Medvedev's last speech felt like a pre-election speech.

Medvedev is a liberal who was at one time chosen by Biden to run Russia.

His term was Putin running thinks. I've always said that

he is not the right person to govern Russia, but it seems now he is trying to take power.

That's why I ask how plausible a coup is. Instability is not good for Russia. Putin needs this term to end the war

and his next and final term to find a worthy successor that isn't Medvedev.

There's absolutely no possibility of a coup in Russia at the present time. I mean, I think

we can dismiss that possibility entirely. Certainly not, certainly not at the moment. In fact, I'm going to say

something. I think over the last two weeks or so, things have been going very much Russia's way.

And I was recently in St. Petersburg and the overwhelming sentiment that I got the sense of there

was that there's huge

supportive Putin pretty much in every section of Russian society. By the way, and for the

record, I do not agree with the view that Medvedev was a liberal. When he was president, I argued

and pushed back strongly against it. I think the

Medvedev we see now is the real Medvedev. The problem was that some people in the West,

back at that time, we're talking about 2008 and during the period after, developed idea of Medvedev, the liberal, based

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