Kiriyenko and an anecdote: why the Kremlin is speeding up the production of new items

Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Photo by SEFA KARACAN / ANADOLU AGENCY / ANADOLU VIA AFP

The Russian authorities are urgently looking for people who will govern the country after Putin. It was formally announced: the road is open to everyone - submit an application, pass the selection, become a governor. In practice, an almost hereditary system is being created, where key positions are increasingly occupied by the children of current officials, and “open competitions” are turning into a mechanism for selecting “new service people.” Why this double structure, why personnel projects are more reminiscent of party schools of the late USSR and how all this is connected with the future transit of power - in the material of Mikhail Shevchuk.

The Kremlin is in a hurry to create new “personnel forges” from where it is supposed to replenish the ruling elite. The authorities do not have much time left to put together a new base capable of ensuring the inheritance of power by the next generation. However, the openness proclaimed at the same time actually means closedness to outsiders.

The old Soviet jokes no longer work; more precisely, one of them is about the son of a colonel, who can never become a general, because the general has his own children. Such a statement was unexpectedly made by the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, top manager of Russian domestic policy Sergei Kiriyenko.

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