Andrei Yakovlev

Jun 12, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Kate Davidson |Andrei Yakovlev |Simon Saradzhyan |RM Associates

When Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a fifth term as Russia’s president at the age of 71, the Russian ruler—whom the country’s exiled opposition likes to refer to as the “old man in the bunker”— he was visibly the oldest participants in the lavish ceremony broadcast from the grand halls of the Kremlin on May 7, 2024.

May 30, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Andrei Yakovlev |Angelina Flood |Andrey Pertsev |Simon Saradzhyan

The events of recent months clearly show that, contrary to all previous statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has set a course for reviewing privatization deals and, more broadly, for the redistribution of property in the Russian economy. There are three plausible explanations for what is driving this process, which rather complement each other:1. It is traditional for Putin’s Russia to use “power resources” to redistribute private property. 2.