Economic war internal to before the civil war shooting and purge starts? First, Russia attacks its own "kulaks"?
Big oil is falling apart accelerated by global environmental demands.
"Rosneft is run by Igor Sechin, a powerful longtime assistant of President Vladimir Putin.
Sechin, who has been placed on the U.S. and the EU sanctions lists over the Ukrainian crisis, was seen as the mastermind behind the 2003 arrest of Russia's then-richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky's Yukos oil company was broken into pieces and sold in dubious auctions with Rosneft seizing the most lucrative elements."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-09-16/russian-billionaire-placed-under-house-arrest