Vladislav Leonidovich Inozemtsev (russian: Владислав Леонидович Иноземцев; born 10 October 1968, Gorky,

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) is a Russian

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who is the director of the

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-based Centre for Research on Post-Industrial Societies, a

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.huffingtonpost.com: "Vladislav Inozemtsev"
/ref> He is a professor and the chair at the Department of World Economy, Faculty of Public Governance, Moscow State Lomonosov University.

Career

Since November 2012, Inozemtsev has been chairman of the High Council of the Civilian Force, a Russian "center-liberal",

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political party. He authored

Mikhail Prokhorov Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov ( rus, Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. I ...

's presidential program, when the candidate ran third to

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in the March 2012 elections. He has been published in

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with

Alexander Lebedev Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev ( rus, Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf; born 16 December 1959) is a Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of t ...

and with

Ivan Krastev Ivan Krastev ( bg, Иван Кръстев, born 1965 in Lukovit, Bulgaria), is a political scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, permanent fellow at the IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna, and 2013-4 ...

and in Russia in Global Affairs with

Ilya Ponomarev Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пономарёв; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian politician who was a member of the State Duma from 2007 to 2016. He was the only member of the State Duma not to v ...

, with

Vladimir Ryzhkov Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Рыжко́в; born 3 September 1966 in Rubtsovsk) is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of People's Freedom Party (2006 � ...

and with Yekaterina Kuznetsova. His articles have also been published in M.NEWS. In spring 2018 he concluded that the

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between Russia and the West was based on the complete absence of rationality within Russian foreign policy. He could not see where Putin was aiming, except to become a dictator in a land that doesn't even try to keep up appearances of being a democracy. Trying to re-erect the Soviet Union wouldn't seem promising. In 2021, Inozemtsev concluded that Putin became even more anti-western. The reason for this were personal incompatibilities with his western counterparts; Putin was "neither politician nor a military person″ but a spy instead, believing not in institutions and hirarchies, but in loyalty, trust and networks: "Putin believed that the world is being reigned by people instead of institutions". In spring 2022 Inozemtsev claimed that Putin fulfilled "immaculately the catalog of what matters to be called

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and

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# statization of the Russian economy (by bureaucratisation), # restructuration of the administration towards an absolute hierarchical crackdown of power # symbolism and

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. Regarding the

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, Inozemtsev said that sanctions would not convince Russians to get rid of Putin, as most of them really believed that Ukraine was a part of their country. The West should aim to have Putin charged for war crimes with a prospect to the elites, to end sanctions as soon as Putin and his generals would be transferred to the

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. Russia had become a classical

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.Früherer Kremlberater Wladislaw Inosemzew: »Russland ist eine klassische Diktatur«
Spiegel, March 20th 2022

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