Of the six or so possibles, Mikhail Mishustin, the current prime minister is worth watching. He’s stayed in the Goldilocks region of the Putin blast zone, so close enough to take over, particularly security services, but far enough away to avoid getting shot against the wall. He’s 56, reasonably sporty, and like Trump, into real estate. He would likely be a temporary fix. It typically takes several years for a strong man (woman?) to emerge in Russia, and there is lots of shittiness in the interim. Stalin, for example, tried to have Lenin’s wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, stripped of her status as Lenin’s widow. The dismantling of Putin’s empire could be a better than 10 seasons of Storage Wars meets Breaking Bad.
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