'Eventually I think the system will collapse,' economist and former Kremlin adviser Sergei Guriev said. 'It could be North Korea on steroids, who knows?'
to Russian law that would allow him to serve through 2036, according to some in the U.S. intelligence community. Given that reality, Guriev believes the administration is ill-equipped to emerge from its current crisis after decades under Putin's control, which he said has fomented an environment of paranoia that could set the country up to become"North Korea on steroids."
"He built the regime in a way that without him, the system will not function," said Guriev."People around him don't trust each other, sometimes hate each other. So if he's gone, the system will change somehow." Sergei Guriev, a Russian economist and professor of economics at the Institute of Political Studies, poses during a photo session in Paris on March 16. Guriev said economic sanctions from the West have created a dire situation for Russia's economy as it remains mired in conflict with the neighboring nation of Ukraine.
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