Despite being one of the West's most widely researched analysts on the Kremlin and Russian domestic politics, Anna Arutunyan does not give many interviews. Born in the Soviet Union, raised in the United States and He returned to Moscow in the early 2000s To work as a journalist. However, for the past ten years he has lived abroad, between the UK and the US, where he has collaborated as an analyst for organizations such as the Crisis Group and the Wilson Centre. However, don't lose The ability to look at one's own country without the vices of foreigners, Not subscribing to all of the peer consensus – especially regarding the personality of Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is not Stalin“He is not the kind of ideological visionary who has a strong sense of what he wants for Russia,” he said in an interview with the Observador newspaper, contradicting some of the images often cast in the West that depict Putin as a master of strategy. Instead, Arotonian refers to constant “meanders” and “hesitations.” I think he is trying to imitate Stalinism without actually applying it. He plays on the fears of Russian societyHe issues threats and spreads confusion and discord, but… Without doing all the things normally expected of a dictator“.
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