Paranoid Putin promotes family to top jobs, sidelining FSB allies

Vladimir Putin has rejected Soviet norms and begun promoting members of his family to key roles in the Kremlin. Nataliya Vasilyeva reports this is a symptom of Putin’s isolation.

Read more from Nataliya: https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/vladimir-putin-family-anna-sivileva-xnbt0bwkt

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41 comments
  1. This is it . I give him a month . The only people that he feels he can trust , are his family and " friends ". Why on earth would they be any more competent than the Yes Men with whom he surrounded himself ?
    Classic collapse of a dictator .

  2. When you've had as many people killed as he has in the last two years' relaxation is a thing of the past. It's a real-life Russian rendition of Macbeth

  3. He's not a politician He's a gangster and gangsters usually get shot in the back by someone they trusted, even the most loyal bodyguard can be bribed or threatened by someone

  4. The invasion of the Kursk Oblast will have far reaching and very significant consequences for Russia. As pointed out, this the first time a foreign military has invaded the mother country of Russia since World War 2. Putin seriously miscalculated when decided to steal land from other countries in order to fortify against invasion by foreign armies from outside Russia. Rather ironic, don’t you think?

  5. He knows… his time is coming… the circle is tightening up around him… and he will not have a scape route … it will be all over soon, Putin

  6. The internet and medias float with videos and reports of a very active Putin, so it maybe will become difficult to convince people, that Putin isolate himself 🙄

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