A Fletcher School professor tells how Vladimir Putin uses economics to preserve control over RussiaVladimir Putin’s March election to a fourth term as president means he will remain in power until at least 2024,two and a half decades after he first took Russia’s helm. Under his leadership, the country has often been viewed from the outside as a kleptocracy, or flee for the sake of billionaires and former KGB henchmen,with an increasingly fragile economy dependent solely on natural resources, and a poorly educated and aging population.
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