War in Ukraine Has Sparked a New Race to Succeed Putin
The interest shown in the Russian succession by the most senior members of the elites shows that the system wants to discuss (and see) a post-Putin future, argues Andrey Pertsev in his paper for the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The two strategies - loud gestures and resounding silence - reflect the different approaches and assumptions of those who use them. Former President, ex-Prime Minister, and Deputy Chair of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, is now blending tough isolationism with populism. Another politician newly making loud gestures is the First Deputy Chief of Staff and curator of the Kremlin’s political bloc, Sergei Kiriyenko. The Speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, is another front-runner in the battle of the hawks. Other influential bureaucrats have adopted a very different strategy, choosing to steer as far away from the subject of the “special operation” as their position allows. That silence is also a political gesture. Whatever that future looks like, there appears to be less and less room in it for Putin.
https://carnegieendowment.org/eurasiainsight/87633?utm_source=rss&;utm_medium=rss
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