A good British friend of mine has a couple of businesses, one in Finland and the other in Russia. We had a chat this weekend about the situation in Russia and he suggested that when Puiti goes (which he thinks will be before the end of this year) Russia is likely to break up into independent states as the power base in the Kremlin wages what would amount to a civil war with the younger element of the population and would lose. Ironically this is exactly what the Daily Mail is saying: