The Putin Doctrine

Vladimir Putin. © RIA Novosti. Alexei Druzhinin

Russia: Introducing The Putin Doctrine -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

Russia’s president flexes his muscle at home and abroad.

Six months after returning to power in the face of mounting opposition, Russian President Vladimir Putin is exercising his political capital—and doing so in imperial fashion. The most recent example: earlier this month, sitting at a small table in his ornate, oak-walled office in the Kremlin, Putin announced that Russia was creating the world’s largest publicly traded oil company. The goal: to restore the glory of Russia the only way Putin seems to know how—the raw acquisition of power. “He is trying to keep stability, as he sees it, with billions of dollars in oil,” said Evgeny Gontmakher, an analyst at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, a Moscow-based think tank. “I predict chaos.”

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My Comment: He is going to Russia's President for the next 6 years .... maybe 12 .... so his doctrine and intentions need to be watched very closely.