As the Ukraine crisis settles into what appears to be a long stalemate, perhaps it is time to consider the future of Russian recalcitrance to the West — and who and what may follow in the footsteps of the main author of this recalcitrance, Vladimir Putin. Russia plainly needed someone like Putin at this point in its history. But did it also need Putinism? Will it in the future? Will the autocratic, state-centered ideology that Russian’s leader has come to represent survive the man?
I believe there is a good chance that it will. Coming out of the failure of the …read more
Source: European Voice
