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Daria Sukharchuk is a journalist based in Berlin, where she works as a news anchor for Russian-language OstWest.tv. Her writing has appeared in Motherboard and ZEIT Online, Cosmopolitan, as well as Afisha (Moscow's leading city magazine). She specializes on the topic of human rights, migration, and mental health.
She has her BA in Chinese history, and, never having forgotten her history background, has also contributed to the educational project1917.com.
Who Will Replace Putin (Kremlin Version)
Who if not Putin? This question haunts people in Russia, more so this year after a spike in protests and talk of Putin getting old and losing his touch.
This is a light, but serious take on who might replace Putin - as he himself might see it. The view is bleak: his former bodyguard, whose career seems to repeat his own, and an obscure economist. Both were appointed as governors of important districts without having spent a day in public office.
Will any of them make it to the very top? It's hard to tell, and there are no experts who can. But that is the point - in a country where politics are not public, and where there is no transparency, the future is impossible to predict, or plan.
