Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Putin Wants to Run Russia Like a Corporation

His system can't rely on loyalists anymore, but it will be hard to attract the next generation.

October 13, 2017 at 5:30 AM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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By swiftly replacing 11 of 85 regional governors in the past two weeks, President Vladimir Putin is previewing plans to run Russia as a corporation after his all-but-inevitable victory in next year's presidential election.

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