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Gideon Rachman

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1. “Almost too neatly, you could pinpoint the very beginning of the century because Putin comes to power on the 31st of December 1999. But I think it takes a while for the strongman phenomenon to gather momentum and to be recognized. I think initially the way Putin portrays himself and is regarded in the West is as a Democrat. As Clinton says he's the guy he meets him in the Kremlin in March 2000 and says this is the man who will complete Russia's transition to democracy. And Putin speaks a kind of democratic language at the time. I think he only really begins to emerge as something else. Well, I suppose if you're paying close attention, you could look at the Chechen war, the prosecution of people like Kodakovsky quite early on. But he changes his rhetoric in 2007 with a big speech in Munich where he really breaks with the West and announces that Russia is not happy with the post-Cold War settlement. But then for a while he looks like a kind of anomaly.”

   2022-04-18 · Intelligence Squared · Putin and The Age of The Strongman, with Gideon Rachman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT