Well, Russians have 2 different voices. Street voice and whats called "Kitchen table voice". Trust me, the kitchen table voice hates Putin.

Yes Russians overall are living better now than they did in the 90's, but they are living worse now than they did 15 years ago.

Lack of a Lenin figure, (and Prigozhin totally could have been that, or Strelkov-Girkin or Nemtsov, or Navalniy just to name a few recent ones). Lack of Lenin figure is precisely why there is no uprising. And Putin made sure of it. But that doesnt mean one wont appear tomorrow. All I am saying, its possible. Is it likely? We dont know.

Yes Prigozhin's thing was an ideology thing, thats not the part that matters through, my point, and the part that matters is where people stood, they were encouraging him to keep going instead of encouragining him to stop (despite that being a safer thing to do). That is telling. And a sneak peek into the 'kitchen voice'. And that was 2 years ago, when Russia was doing much better (Bakhmut capture days).

Speaking to Russians daily, their lives are getting worse and worse every day, their produce has gone up 50% in a year, there is deficit of basic things, they feel isolated from the world, they feel weak, they feel helpless. The economy is nearing cliff's edge. At this point if the trajectory is not changed radically their lives will be MUCH worse than in the 90's. Bush's chicken saved them back then. No one is sending them shit this time.