[sharikous]

They are still hundreds of miles away from Moscow. In a textbook coup you seize centers of power and media stations as fast as you can but this attempt is on the slow side (certainly the physical size of Russia is helping too).

For now it is "only" an armed rebellion, I guess. And depending on how it unfolds it could be a lot of things.

I think that this sort of thing is not very frequent in contemporary, or even modern, history, but it is very reminiscent of Roman history.