"The X-hour for contemporary Russia starts at dawn on 20 August 2020, when Alexey Navalny loses consciousness and falls on the aisle carpet of a low-cost plane in the sky of Siberia". 

This may mark the beginning of Vladimir Putin's personal power's end. Certainly, it is the lowest and most difficult point for him in the last decade. The whole world now knows that Navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent from Soviet military laboratories, the Novichok. But the fact that he survived changes everything, and legitimizes those who are convinced that this false step has triggered a series of reactions that will lead the Kremlin towards a road of no return. 

In this essay, Putin and Navalny are the two protagonists of a political confrontation - but also a cultural battle and a generational conflict - which thirty years after the end of the USSR could represent both a historical turning point and an epochal disaster for the Russian Federation. and his leader, increasingly isolated in his bunker while other internal powers try to replace him.