Russia-2025: Scenarios for the Future

PoliticsRussia’s political system under Putin: diagnosisIt’s not just imitating something, it works.The problem is that it’s static, it can’t reproduce itself whichmakes its lifetime very limited.Putin’s system during12 years has emerged, matured, agedand is now at the stage of decayPutin’s problem is not his stupidity or even secret servicesbackground, it’s lack of restrictions. He used to be muchmore effective during his first term when having seriousrestrictions, then everything got wrong and unfortunately forhim and the country oil prices skyrocketed…