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this is "gps", the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. im fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, what is happening inside putins russia? is he losing his grip on power? is he at odds with his own commanders? and how might his forces fair against the up coming counter offensive. well get inside from julia yoif and andrei soldatov. and since china opened up its economy in 1978, it has averaged almost 10% grow...

Sense? i think we always thought putin was very tightly in control. and the russian state was a very tightly knit operation. that he and his security elites, the fsb and such, were in complete control. the defense ministry on the army saluted. does this suggest that it is not -- you know, it is not that much of a kind of a vertical of power as we used to think? >> well, i think that putin was very much in control in the security services were very much in control. but as with everything in russi...

Upsetting to put it very mildly. that led the security elites of finland, and they have such, to -- we can see nato. they have had a nato option for a long time, but now they are reconsidering it. that has led also to the same discussion in sweden and i think both are very firmly moving in the same direction. it is a sea change, needless to say, but it will come. >> and youve been on all sides of these kinds of things, so give us a sense of how do you think nato will react and will russias threa...

Do you actually there there could be fracturing of support within his own establishment? >> i think so. i think it has been coming for a while and hi think his business people for example, were the business elite were kind of pushed aside with the ukraine crisis by his security elites because he clearly can stay in power only if she supported by the military and security but it is possible with the death of nemtsov two weeks ago, slightly more than two weeks ago it is possible even with his secu...