Putin is threatening governors with criminal responsibility for botched #COVID19 responses. The only problem is: regions hardly have the necessary political and budgetary autonomy to make executive decisions, esp if Putin wants to get the army involved. https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2020/04/13/827935-prigrozil?utm_campaign=vedomosti_public&utm_content=827935-prigrozil&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter">https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/...

I wrote about this last week in this THREAD (and blog). More to come soon. https://twitter.com/NoYardstick/status/1246921971239092225">https://twitter.com/NoYardsti...