JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Since coming to power earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to war with much of his country's establishment. CNN's Steve Harrigan reports.</s>STEVE HARRIGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A show of force from Vladimir Putin at a Russian arms fair; one howitzer might not be enough for a president fighting political battles on several fronts.</s>VYACHESLAV NIKONOV, POLITICAL ANALYST: He is fighting with the oligarchs. He is fighting with the governors. He is fighting with some of independent media, which is too critical of Putin. And he is fighting for liberal economic reforms. In my mind, he cannot win in all those battles.</s>HARRIGAN: The opposition now includes the most famous of the oligarchs, one-time Putin supporter Boris Berezovsky. The media, automobile, airline, and oil mogul announced he would resign his seat in Parliament, and warned of a coming Putin dictatorship.</s>BORIS BEREZOVSKY, DUMA DEPUTY (through translator): The president is putting pressure on the economic and political elite. The goal -- and he's not hiding it -- is to concentrate all power in his hands. I think we know where this path takes us.</s>HARRIGAN: Criminal investigations into some of Russia's largest companies include the country's only independent television network, which has been critical of the president. But on the public tennis courts of Moscow, there is little sense of impending doom.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I'm not afraid of any dictatorship. They talk tough, but it is just for public opinion. It's a game.</s>HARRIGAN: A game, with seven-year-old girls struggling to become the next Kournikova, or for a country with a seven-year-old constitution, struggling to become a democratic nation? Steve Harrigan, CNN, Moscow.
Russian President Putin Faces Criticism and Opposition