Putin pulls no punches when it comes to who’s in charge

It looks like the end of the line for the man who helped establish the Russian president’s regime almost two decades ago, writes Nina L. Khrushcheva.            

President Vladimir Putin’s regime is as sphinxlike as any that has ever ruled Russia, and now there is a new mystery afoot.

Is Igor Sechin — perhaps the most powerful of the St Petersburg siloviki who helped establish Putin’s regime 18 years ago — about to fall?