{"id":36450,"date":"2020-05-13T04:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=36450"},"modified":"2020-05-13T04:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:06:32","slug":"has-putin-changed-russia-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/has-putin-changed-russia-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Putin Changed Russia Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/has-putin-changed-russia-forever\/putin-grid-lede\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Putin Man of the Moment\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Putin-Grid-Lede.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>A Strongman Brand Others Can Emulate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/andrea-kendall-taylor\/\">Andrea Kendall-Taylor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the past 20 years, Putin has been driven principally by his desire to maintain power. To this end, he has weakened the state, eliminated competition, and personalized Russia\u2019s political system. While an older generation of Russians credit Putin for helping Russia overcome the turmoil of the 1990s, in reality he has turned the country into a kleptocracy that does not work for ordinary Russians. <span class=\"pull-quote has-quote\" data-pullquote=\"As he has grown more paranoid about threats to his power\u2014internal and external, real and imagined\u2014Putin has suppressed the freedoms of Russians, increasingly through an arsenal of digital tactics.\">As he has grown more paranoid about threats to his power\u2014internal and external, real and imagined\u2014Putin has suppressed the freedoms of Russians, increasingly through an arsenal of digital tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote-left\"><p>As he has grown more paranoid about threats to his power\u2014internal and external, real and imagined\u2014Putin has suppressed the freedoms of Russians, increasingly through an arsenal of digital tactics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Russia\u2019s internal weaknesses, Putin has boosted the country\u2019s global standing. The lack of constraints on his power, his investment in modernizing his military, and his ability to exploit asymmetries of interest between Russia and the West have allowed Putin to seize opportunities, even those that violate international laws. Today, Russia has a role in most global issues of consequence. But Putin also understands the limits of Russian influence. He has therefore sought to undermine Western democracies to improve Russia\u2019s relative standing. His tactics and strongman brand have created a model that anti-democratic leaders emulate. As Putin has alienated Russia from the West, Russia\u2019s place in the world is increasingly alongside the regimes of Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Rouhani, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and Xi Jinping. Much can be told from the company one keeps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Strongman Brand Others Can Emulate by Andrea Kendall-Taylor For the past 20 years, Putin has been driven principally by his desire to maintain power. To this end, he has weakened the state, eliminated competition, and personalized Russia\u2019s political system. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/has-putin-changed-russia-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36455,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450\/revisions\/36455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}