Far from formidable, Vladimir
Putin and those around him in the Kremlin have made themselves prisoners of the
past.
Russia’s frozen power structures condemn it to crisis.
The adage about power and corruption going hand in hand fits the case, but
there is a more ancient one that fits Putin and his immediate colleagues even
better, in the Talmud: “Power buries those who wield it.” The Power Vertical When he succeeded Yeltsin, Putin did not have to choose
top-down governance through what he called a “power vertical.” True, the roots
of such a system were there in the 1990s, but so too was the potential for a
more effective division of powers at the center, a better regional...
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