Russian President Vladimir Putin faces the threat of being overthrown by his own army officers and generals, a journalist has claimed.
Andrei Soldatov, a senior Russian investigative journalist, revealed to Channel 4 News that "everything now seems to be possible" when he was questioned if the Kremlin leader, a former FSB agent himself, could be toppled by his own men.
Last week Mr Soldatov said that furious Putin had put the head of the FSB's foreign service under house arrest.