"Security Council is a new Politburo or a nursing home for security forces?"

What is happening with Russian politics - the opinions of Western experts in the podcast The Naked Pravda

On January 15, Vladimir Putin announced the reform of state power in Russia, after which Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the resignation of the government. Medvedev became Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, and the head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin was appointed the new prime minister. What are Western experts think about these rearrangements and how do political processes work in the Kremlin? About this the fourth episode of the English -language podcast The Naked Pravda .

When the government was resigned, the chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok was preparing Podkast about the deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko and how the executive branch in Russia was arranged. After the message of Vladimir Putin, the Russian politician was in the center of attention of the world press , and the issues of Kremlinology became even more relevant, and Kevin again contacted the experts to discuss current political events.

In the release:

• 03:51 Political scientist Maria Lipman about the Kremlin’s miscalculations and why the authorities of the authorities are now difficult to predict even to insiders.
• 05:42 Political scientist Konstantin Haaza that Russian state ideology appeared as a life hack: in his opinion, Russia “hacked” the world political order, and then ideology grew out of this approach.
• 08:10 Specialist in Russia, professor at the Maxwell School at the University of Siracuse Brian Taylor on the role of the presidential administration in making state decisions.
• 22:28 Researcher, political scientist Yana Gorokhovskaya about what actually means the proposed departure from the super -presidential system.
• 24:14 Director of the Institute of Russia at London Kings-College Sam Green on the new significance of the State Council, which Putin proposed to make a constitutional body.
• 25:58 Expert on Russian politics, author of the book “We need to talk about Putin” Mark Galeotti about what security advice is and what Dmitry Medvedev will do there.

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