Putin is practicing social distancting--from his own government's response to #coronavirus. @Stanovaya unpacks how Putin's hands-off role and engrained habits of top-down governance are fostering bureaucratic chaos and ineffectual crisis management carnegie.ru/commentary/814…
The Russian state is also practicing social distancing--from its own people. "There is no dialogue in Russia between society and the authorities, and the problem of the leadership deficit is not just managerial, but political." 2/3
"The state is becoming nothing more than a monitoring mechanism for coercion & is losing its legitimacy. In its 20th year, the Putin system is closing in on itself [and its]..aim is not to protect people but to be able to serve each individual managerial cog in the machine." 3/3
