‘Stop talking about a successor’: Senator believes new constitution will protect Putin from lame-duck status & stabilize system

Proposed amendments

Proposed amendments to Russia’s constitution will fix the problem of the country’s personality-driven politics by distributing the president’s powers between different authorities, according to prominent senator Andrey Klishas.

“The fact that power in the Russian Federation is so personified [in the Kremlin] is, of course, a problem,” Klishas said. “And therefore the president, realizing this, is distributing these powers among the constitutional authorities. Thus, he makes the political system more stable.”

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