Putin for the fourth time. No vision, no hopeOSW Commentary NUMBER 256 | 13.12.2017
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2017

On 6 December Vladimir Putin announced that he will run in the presidential election to be held on 18 March 2018. The absence of any change in the office of Russia’s president is rooted in the logic of a personalised system of governance that has emerged in Russia. It is also a demonstration of the government’s will to maintain the present course in domestic and foreign policy, one that is static and devoid of any scope for development. This is regardless of the fact that the government is strug