“There will be Putin or someone like Putin”: why Russia has concerns about the elections

Putin holds on to the “throne” for a reason / Getty Images

Kremlin speaker Dmitry Peskov issued a strange statement about the next president of Russia. For the first time, Vladimir Putin’s henchman told the truth: “It will be the same. Or different, but the same.”

Such statements take away illusions and make it clear that when the Russian government changes, one should not expect colossal changes. Political scientist and serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Kirill Sazonov shared these thoughts with Channel 24 .

Putin has two options

“There will be Putin, or someone like Putin. As for the elections and the fact that he will be there until his death? With the exception, perhaps, of Boris Yeltsin, all the other Russian tsars and general secretaries during the union remained in their positions until death. . In Russia, this is how it works “that everything depends on the tsar autocrat,” Sazonov emphasized.

Consequently, the emperor and his entourage live well and rule the country; if someone is removed from office, this is basically a clear signature for death, which is why in Russia everyone holds on to their positions with their teeth and is afraid of any changes or elections.

Nobody can give Putin such guarantees. Therefore, the current president of Russia has two options: to rule until death or to leave the Kremlin throne on his own and hope to live a little longer if “his own” are not killed.

The West will be blamed again

Russia plans to hold presidential elections in 2024. However, everyone knows that in the aggressor country there has been no right to choose for a long time and the people are not worried about this.

Let's remember the castling of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev:

• Putin ruled for two terms from 2000 to 2008;
• then supposedly Medvedev was in power from 2008 to 2012;
• and again the Kremlin was led by Putin from 2012 to 2018 and from 2018 to the present.

Sazonov about the “era” of Putin’s rule: watch the video

Suppose that during the presidential campaign Vladimir Putin will not talk about the war in Ukraine, but will focus on the “fight with the West.” Because the Russian president needs at least some kind of support from the people, but the occupiers are not having success at the front.

Therefore, yes, we will have to talk about the West, “which plans to crush us.” They are no strangers, this was their rhetoric throughout the Soviet era and, perhaps, it was like this in the Russian Empire, and it’s the same now,” explained Kirill Sazonov.

Presidential elections in Russia

• The eighth presidential elections in Russia are scheduled to take place on March 17, 2024. Putin has decided to run for a new 6-year presidential term, but there is still no official confirmation of this. He did not announce his participation in the elections for a number of reasons.
• At the same time, many foreign diplomats and officials expect him to remain in power for life. And the press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, called the elections in the aggressor country a “bureaucracy” and even predicted that Putin would “win” and receive 90% of the votes.
• In addition, the “elections” in Russia fall on two symbolic dates – the 10th anniversary of the occupation of Ukrainian Crimea and the 25th anniversary of Putin’s tenure at the Russian helm.