> The reporting by traditional media had a lot of „not independently confirmed“ details. This was very strange, given that everything was happening in a densely populated area - Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Tula are big cities, M4 is an important highway with a lot of traffic. I would expect minute-by-minute coverage with a lot of pictures, maps, estimates of how much time they need to reach Moscow etc.

1. Russia does not have journalists.

2. When people see a military putsch, they don't normally stop to film it. They run for their lives instead.

> with few notable exceptions, we have not even seen faces of anyone from national security council. Some local actions of the governors, fortification of Moscow, pathetic speech of Putin in the morning and that’s it.

3. Everybody was waiting to see who will win, and join the winning side

> All despite that PMC Wagner is a criminal organization famous for extra-judicial executions, war crimes etc. An organization led by an open nazi (Utkin) and assembled from prisoners, many of which were convicted for violent crimes. It is crazy how people can even think of collaborating with them.

4. I'm surprised this coming as a surprise to anybody. They would've gotten the same treatment in much of the world.

> Russia still has nuclear weapons and it is big enough that even without using them by falling apart it can destabilize the entire world.

Russia will be 100 times less of a treat to the world, if it crashes, and breaks apart.