Russia's ruling party approved President Putin's surprise pick for new PM, Mikhail Mishustin, a man with almost no political profile. But why was he chosen? Here is more
MOSCOW - Russia’s ruling party on Thursday unanimously backed President Vladimir Putin’s surprise choice for prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, a man with almost no political profile.
The changes are widely seen as giving Putin, 67, scope to extend his grip on power once he leaves the presidency in 2024. He has dominated Russian politics, as president or as prime minister, for two decades. Mishustin, 53, ran the country’s tax service where he won praise for dramatically improving tax collection.Critics have long accused Putin, a former KGB officer, of plotting to stay on in some capacity after his term ends and continue to wield power over the world’s largest nation, which is also one of its two leading nuclear powers.
“It’s clear to everyone that everything is going exclusively toward setting Putin up to rule for life,” he wrote on social media.The Kommersant business daily on Thursday called Putin’s shake-up “the January revolution”. The proposals looked, Kommersant wrote, like the start of many more changes to come.
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