30
May
2017
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22:11
Asia/Singapore

Can Putin escape the fate of the Soviet model?

Prof Zheng Yongnian, Director of the East Asian Institute at NUS, highlighted that the Russian anti-government demonstration in  March was in fact targeted at its President Vladimir Putin. He opined that although President Putin has substantially rebuilt Russian economy, the country in many ways is still being run based on the former Soviet Union model.