{"id":12730,"date":"2015-12-14T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T00:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12730"},"modified":"2015-12-14T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T00:24:01","slug":"putins-popularity-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/putins-popularity-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s popularity, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowyinterpreter.org\/post\/2015\/12\/14\/Putins-popularity-explained.aspx\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/picture2f20152f122fputin_december_2015.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Matthew Dal Santo at The Interpreter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main point is, however, that Russia&#8217;s &#8216;conservative turn&#8217; since Putin&#8217;s return to the Kremlin in March 2012 \u2014 widely deplored in the West as a creeping authoritarianism with roots only in the wiles of Putin&#8217;s mind \u2014 may be closer to the world view of Russia&#8217;s conservative and patriotic majority than most Western governments would care to admit&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, however, this is betting on the wrong horse. &#8216;This isn&#8217;t just about Putin&#8217;, he told a group I was with in Moscow. &#8216;It&#8217;s about the nature of society as a whole. Putin has been able to rule this country in an authoritarian way with the consent of the governed.&#8217; The imagined liberal majority looking to the West for emancipation doesn&#8217;t exist. Russian liberals, he said, &#8216;have the same problem the revolutionaries have always had in Russia: they look down on the rest of the country as dupes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But Trenin is just as pessimistic about the ability of Russia&#8217;s present rulers to address the country&#8217;s underlying problems. &#8216;We will have to expect some sort of upheaval. The dams will have to be broken somehow.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowyinterpreter.org\/post\/2015\/12\/14\/Putins-popularity-explained.aspx\">Putin&#8217;s popularity, explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Matthew Dal Santo at The Interpreter: The main point is, however, that Russia&#8217;s &#8216;conservative turn&#8217; since Putin&#8217;s return to the Kremlin in March 2012 \u2014 widely deplored in the West as a creeping authoritarianism with roots only in the wiles of Putin&#8217;s mind \u2014 may be closer to the world view of Russia&#8217;s conservative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/putins-popularity-explained\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putin&#8217;s popularity, explained&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-markets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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