JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Brittle Regime: Like the Soviet One That Preceded It, His System Is Always on the Brink of Collapse” – Foreign Affairs: Maksim Samorukov
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“… [T]he Kremlin makes decisions in a personalized and arbitrary way … lack[ing] … basic quality controls. …. The costs of these structural deficiencies are mounting. … Putin’s regime, a highly personalized system run by an aging autocrat, is more brittle than it seems. Driven by Putin’s whims and delusions, Moscow is liable to commit self-defeating blunders. The Russian state […]
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