a series of protests this summer that has rattled the Kremlin and posed the biggest political challenge to Russian President
Russia would soon face a major political crisis and a change in political leadership - said political analysts Valery Soloviev in an interview with Deutsche Welle. - Similar moods prevailed shortly before the USSR collapsed. The President of Russia has at least partially stopped knowing the internal affairs of the Russian Federation as he is effectively manipulated by people from his surroundings, he added.
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Deutsche Welle: So far, many of your forecasts have come true, but it seems that the most important one about the fall of Vladimir Putin and the change of power in Russia is not going to be checked at all ...
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Valery Soloviev, former Dean of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations: In my opinion, the political crisis in Russia will take place next year and the crisis will last from two to three years. As a result of this crisis, the ruling team will be changed in the Russian Federation. However, I do not know how the regime change will take place. Will it be a voluntary transformation of the regime, or will it collapse as a result of protests in society reminiscent of revolution? However, I am sure that these events will take place until 2024.
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DW: Does the Court manipulate tsar Vladimir?
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Valery Soloviev: Exactly. When for years you have absolute power, no competitors and no control, the personality of such a man is deformed. Personally, I am convinced that in Putin's case this deformation is at a very advanced stage. German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2014 after a conversation with Putin stated that: "I am not sure if the Russian president still has contact with reality."
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DW: Why have you been you fired from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations?
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Valely Soloviev: I learned from the university management that I had to be fired for political reasons: I am guilty of spreading anti-state ideology, I was destroying the political stability of the Russian Federation, so people like me have no place at the university. My fault lies in the fact that without emotions I analyzed what is happening in Russia. I simply spoke and wrote the truth.
[based on an article published in onet.pl: Rosyjski politolog - Rosję czeka rewolucja i upadek Putina]