Putin Has Said He Is Preparing A Successor
18- 4.05.2025, 19:32
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This is what he told his propagandist.
Putin stated that he is "constantly" thinking about who will be his successor. He also made it clear that he has a list of candidates. Asked by propagandist Pavel Zarubin whether he assesses the potential of each of them, Putin replied, "Yes, he does."
The Kremlin chief emphasized that his successor must enjoy "the trust of the people," otherwise such a president would have "no chance of doing something seriously." "There must appear a person - and preferably several, so that people have a choice - who would be able to achieve this trust from the citizens of the country," the dictator said in the documentary "Russia. Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years."
In different years, as The Moscow Times, Putin's successors have been named Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Patrushev, deputy chiefs of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko and Dmitri Kozak, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Secretary of the State Council Alexei Dyumin. Putin himself was the successor to Boris Yeltsin.