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Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in December 2016. Sputnik/Pool/Dmitry Astakhov Medvedev public persona has changed radically since Russia's invasion in February 2022, with his statements more akin to that of a vitriolic warmonger. In January, he And on Monday, he Threats to appease Putin Experts told Insider that there's a clear reason behind his rhetoric: Medvedev is in a weak position in Russian politics, and is trying to win favor with Putin. Edward Lucas, senior advisor at the Center for European Policy Analysis, compared Medvedev 's role in Russian politics to characters in "The Sopranos" desperately trying to impress the Mafia leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the United Russia party congress in Moscow, Russia, in December 2017. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP Ben Noble, associate professor of Russian Politics at University College London, told Insider that Medvedev's wild statements are a strategy to make up for his weak political position. "In order to stay relevant – and safe – he has attempted to be even more hawkish than many existing hawks," he said. Lucas, meanwhile, noted that while many saw Medvedev as being more pro-Western, he always believed that to be "rubbish." From Western to wild While Noble says that Medvedev's transformation seems extreme, it doesn't necessarily mean that he has fundamentally changed. Instead, it appears...

More than ten months on from the invasion of Ukraine, the contrast between the scale of the external shocks faced by Russia and the relative inertia inside the country is striking. Despite military failings and punishing sanctions, most Russians have gone on with their lives as though nothing is happening, while the elites have tried not to think about what tomorrow may bring, instead putting their full trust in Putin. However, 2023 could prove a dramatic year for Russia and be make-or-break for its leadership’s resistance to change, with three internal questions in particular promising to shape the country’s development for decades to come. First, Putin will have to decide whether to run for re-election in 2024. Russia’s constitution was amended in 2020 to allow him to remain president until 2036. He may alternatively name a successor, though to leave enough time for campaigning, he would have to do so by the end of December 2023. For now, no one is sure what his plans are. This is by design, as Putin prefers to keep his elites in the dark. Indeed, in the summer of 2020, he justified the constitutional changes that made it possible to extend his rule as a guard against unrest among the elites, who he said “need to work, not look around for successors.” Following the revision of the constitution, both the presidential administration and elites operated on the assumption that Putin would hold on to power indefinitely. Today, the key question is how his calculations have bee...

O ne evening in late December, as Muscovites strolled along their city’s brightly lit streets in anticipation of the end-of-year celebrations, a group of old friends gathered for dinner at the flat of a senior state official. Some of the guests present, which included members of Russia’s cultural and political elite, toasted a new year in which they expressed hope for peace and a return to normality. As the night went on, a man who needed little introduction stood up for a toast, holding his glass. “I am guessing you are expecting me to say something,” said Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s longtime spokesperson, according to one of the two people who separately recounted the evening to the Guardian under conditions of anonymity. “Things will get much harder. This will take a very, very long time,” Peskov continued. His toast darkened the mood of the evening among the guests, many of whom have said in private that they oppose the war in Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters More than a year into an invasion that, according to Russian planning, was supposed to take weeks, Vladimir Putin’s government is putting society on a war footing with the west and digging in for a multi-year conflict. Speaking at length to workers at an aviation factory in the Buryatia region recently, Putin once again cast the war as an existential battle for Russia’s survival. “For us, this is not a geopolitical task, but a task of the survival of Russian statehood, c...

Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, predicted Thursday that Russian President "I think he'll be gone by 2023, but probably into the sanatorium," Dearlove said during the One Decision podcast, adding that Putin, who is 69 years old, will not emerge as the "leader of Russia" anymore after coming out of the medical facility. "That's a way to sort of move things on without a coup." During his interview, Dearlove also predicted that the Russian regime might "break apart" over the next 12 to 18 months due to the West's sanctions imposed on the country, the conflict in Ukraine, and Russia's current military performance. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin will no longer be the leader of his country by 2023. Above, Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu leave Red Square after the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9. Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images Dearlove's comments come amid ongoing speculation about Putin's health, even though the Kremlin has not publicly commented about it since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Earlier this week, U.S. film director Oliver Stone "Remember this, Mr. Putin has had this cancer and I think he's licked it," Stone said without specifying the type of cancer he had. The American director, who is known for famous films including JFK, Scarface, and Platoon, had multiple inter...

Moscow— Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Monday a change to the country's constitution that will allow him to run for two more six-year terms, granting himself the chance to remain in power until 2036. The Russian leader, 68, has already run the country for more than two decades, and with his recent crackdown on political opponents A copy of the new law was posted on the government's legal information website on Monday, confirming that the legislation — the success of which was really never in doubt — had been finalized. Prior to the new law, Putin would have been required to step down after his fourth and current term in 2024. But in March last year, lawmaker Valentina Tereshkova, a lawmaker from Putin's ruling party, Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a meeting with community representatives and residents of Crimea and Sevastopol via a video link in Moscow, Russia, March 18, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS "In principle, this option would be possible, but on one condition," Putin told lawmakers in a televised speech a year ago. "If the constitutional court gives an official ruling that such an amendment would not contradict the principles and main provisions of the constitution." Putin said then that theRussian president was "theguarantor ofthecountry's security and domestic stability" and that the country should avoid political upheavals. "Russia has fulfilled its plan when it comes torevolutions," he said. In July last ...