The slide show focuses on Current Russia, especially the period since 2014, after the Russia-Ukraine standoff; involvement in Syrian war, military and economic relations with Venezuela, complicated policies with China, Baltic states etc, however, the slides try to explains also the historical roots of the modern Russia.

1. Tiiu Pohl - 2019
Putin: 20 Years in Power

2. Putin's Russia
Characteristics
 History - historical values of Russia
 Strong central power
 Dependency on intelligence (secret service)
 Quest for superpower status (Soviet legacy)

3. Putin's Russia
Putin's Russia dependent on (values, attitudes)
Putin‘s Russia – different ideology
Putin – quest for new imperialism + pragmatism?
Yeltsin-Russia
No Imperialism, no expansionism, patriotism?
Soviet Union
Imperialism (great power, expansionism, patriotism)
Tsarist Russia
Imperialism (great power, expansionism, patriotism)

4. Putin's Russia
Tsarist Russia, USSR, Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia
all connected
 State symbols (with smaller variations)
 Basic nationalist-expansionist concepts
(uniqueness)
 Problems of statehood (bureaucracy, corruption,
poor social system etc.)
Putin's Russia – successor to pre-Putin period

5. Putin's Russia
Capital: Moscow (federal city)
• 10,382,754 (legal residents accounted only, 2002 census)
• Largest city in Russia, in Europe, expensive (in the world)
Kreml

6. Putin's Russia
2nd biggest city - Saint Petersburg (federal city)
 Ca 4,6 million people
 Founded 1703 (Peter the Great).
 Putin worked in St.Petersburg (his Moscow team)

7. Russia
Parliament – Federal Assembly – bicameral
• Upper chamber – Federal Council
• Lower Chamber - State Duma
Elections, importance, peculiarities

8. Russia
Presidential institution
• Is not part of division of power
• Is over the division of power
• More power than tzars had ... (Yeltsin in 1994)
• No vice-presidency...

9. Russia
Presidential institution
President
of Russia
Government
(Prime Minister)
F.Assembly
(State Duma)
Court system

10. Russia – executive branch in Russia
Russia
President Medvedev
• Head of the state
Prime minister Putin
• Chairman of the cabinet
Other ministers etc.
• Minister of foreign affairs

11. Russia – executive branch in Russia
Russia
President Putin
• Head of the state
Prime minister Medvedev
• Chairman of the cabinet
Other ministers etc.
• Minister of foreign affairs

12. Russia
President - Cabinet of Ministers (Government)
• PM – direct subordination to president
In addition - “Siloviki” (“Power” ministers)
• Minister of Defence
• Minister of Interior
• Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dual subordination: PM and President

13. Russia
Dual subordination: PM and President
President
Prime minister
Foreign Minister
Minister of Interior
Minister of defence

14. Putin: Terms in Power
Putin and energy?

15. FUTURE
Tandem in power – traded places
2000-2004: Putin
2004-2008: Putin
2008-2012: Medvedev
2012-2018: Putin (19 yrs in power, 65 age)
2018-2024: Putin (25 yrs in power, 71 age)
2024-2030: Medvedev (or anyone else)
2030-2036: Putin
2036-2042: Putin