Putin is preparing his succession

"Putin is obviously fond of presenting the world with enigmas," Frank Nienhuysen writes. "Just when everyone was convinced he would position his favourite Sergei Ivanov as top candidate for the presidential elections, he has conjured up a little-known financial expert called Viktor Zubkov instead... It's impossible to discern a transparent democracy in all this - this is the bitter realisation we must come to in view of Putin's obscure personnel policy just six months before the elections. The Russian people have adopted a stoic stance to the change. They don't expect to be offered a genuine alternative to an authoritarian government system anyway."

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