Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Putin’s ageing circle of command is a sinking ship | Nikolai Petrov

Frontline: The War in Ukraine and Global Security

Show Notes

“The only way to keep this system afloat is to construct it in a manual way and replace the old guys with the new generation.”

Putin must replace his management system to survive, as his inner circle is now “of his age or older”, says political scientist and analyst Nikolai Petrov. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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