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Putinism

  1. (politics) The political policies of Vladimir Putin; the Russian political system during Putin’s tenure in power.
    • 2004, Cameron Ross, Russian Politics Under Putin, Manchester University Press, page 60:
      Indeed Putinism elided the differences between consensus, centrism and conformity.
    • 2008 August 16, Ian Traynor, “Six days that broke one country - and reshaped the world order”, in The Guardian:
      Putin may now calculate he can call off the dogs of war, having achieved his aims and able to pocket his gains very cheaply. The Georgia campaign becomes the triumphant climax of Putinism. [1]
    • 2014, Marc Bennetts, Kicking the Kremlin: Russia’s New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin, Oneworld Publications:
      And so it was Surkov who in 2004 announced that Putinism, this strange new hybrid of Soviet-type authoritarianism and free-market morals, was based on the concept of ‘sovereign democracy’.
    • 2019, Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West gets him wrong, and how to get him right, London: Random House:
      Navalny’s boyish charm, quick wit and detailed accounts of the dodgy deals and luxurious homes of the elite have made his Internet-distributed videos oopular as devastating indictments of the open-mawed corruption of late Putinism.

the political policies of Vladimir Putin

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