Putin will try to get a successor elected who he thinks will continue his project. By all apearances this person will be Dmitry Medvedev. All Putin will have to do to get the successor elected is to stand near him frequently on camera, given Putin's spectacular approval rating. Against the successor will run some Communist candidate who will get 5% or so of the vote, whatever bodyguard or professional athlete or VJ Zhirinovsky decides to nominate, and a lunatic like Kasparov who will claim to be the "voice of the opposition," around whom the Western media will cluster like a harem around the sultan, despite his getting 1% of the vote. Putin will retire and be given an influential (and lucrative) job, probably in the natural-resource industry, like CEO of Gazprom.
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/06, boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > He's turning Russia into yet another one-party
> > third world country.
>
> I asked Chris and others if Putin is planning on
> remaining the head of
> state after 2008, which would require changing the
> Constitution that
> bars a president from serving more than two
> consecutive terms, and
> I've been told that he is not. It will be
> interesting to see who will
> take power next and whether there will be any major
> policy change.
> --
> Yoshie
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
> <http://mrzine.org>
> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
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