Putin's options: an oligarch speaks out

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blaw.

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  Today on the show, life in Kyiv as actions intensify,

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  and our week-long journey down Route 66 reaches its destination.

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  But first,

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  Four years of conflict have vastly changed Russia.

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  As the situation has come closer to home, the issue has become everyone's problem.

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  Russia is facing a growing fuel shortage as Ukraine expands drone actions on Russian energy sites,

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  including the country's largest actions on Kyiv, the Russian leader is now facing trouble at home as we hear from.

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  Now a sense of nervousness is palpable in Moscow.

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  And discontent is becoming more audible.

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  Russia's elite feel that the country has reached a dead end.

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  One of them, a billionaire industrialist called Andrey Melnichenko,

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  has been thinking about a way to change that.

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  For the past few months, he's spent over 60 hours speaking to our Russia editor,

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  Arkady Ostrovsky.

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  Today, I'm joined by Arkady and our deputy editor Ed Carr

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  to discuss the future of Russia and Melnichenko's vision for it.

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  Hi Ed.

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