The unlikely rise of a struggling Russia, its leader Putin and ideology of Putinism

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Vladimir Putin has cleared the way to remain President till 2036. From being Lt-Colonel in the KGB to becoming either the new Stalin or Peter the Great, albeit with an original, anti-Communist ideology of his own. In episode 512 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about how Russia punches way above its weight and how Putin made it third most powerful country in the world.
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Read the article by Sharon Werning Rivera and Henry E. Hale here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/01/russias-referendum-could-keep-vladimir-putin-power-until-2036-what-do-high-ranking-russians-think/

Read Andrew Higgins' article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/europe/putin-referendum-vote-russia.html

Read Paul De Grauwe's blog here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/04/28/why-russia-is-economically-weak-and-politically-strong/

Read David Remnick's article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/watching-eclipse

Read Andrei Kolesnikov's opinion here: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/06/22/putins-majority-30-a70657

Read Phil Stephens' opinion here: https://www.ft.com/content/4a35af89-16a9-412f-acbf-63d94d0c6bc4

Read the Sipri report here: https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2020/usa-and-france-dramatically-increase-major-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-largest-arms-importer-says
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