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Konstantin Gaaze, Moscow Times: Between Night and Day: Who Will Control Putin's Fourth Term? (Op-ed)
The nighttime rulers of the regime are quietly challenging Putin’s role.
Over the last year, Russia’s ruling regime has worked a day shift and a night shift.
The public sees President Vladimir Putin by day, running the government and now running for reelection, meeting workers, launching rockets and receiving foreign dignitaries.
At the same time, the country has had a glimpse of its “government by night” with the trial of former economic development minister Alexei Ulyukayev, instigated by Putin’s close ally, Igor Sechin, and other instances of intimidation and force exercised by men in the shadows.
The daylight rulers of Russia pretend that either these creatures of the night do not exist, or else that they are only serving the interests of the legitimate government. But this process has become so familiar over the last eighteen years of Putin’s presidency that the nocturnal rulers may believe by now that they are the ones really running the country.
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WNU Editor: Russia's Presidential election is this March, and Putin will be re-elected with about 60% of the vote. But unlike his past 3 terms where everyone deferred to him to keep Russia secured, he will be a lame duck in this term, and he is going to start facing an opposition that no longer are confident with his rule starting with this group .... US sanctions: Nervous Russian elite 'realize Putin made a serious mistake' (DW).
2 comments:
I don't see Putin go peacefully. He is not done with his dream of creating a grand Russia that stretches beyond today's borders. I smell more wars coming.
That is false to claim he wants a "grand Russia that stretches beyond today's boaders" Putin s
Doesn't initiate wars of conquest. Hes simply a Nationalist
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