After Putin: The struggle for power in Russia | Mark Galeotti FULL INTERVIEW

Mark Galeotti discusses the power structures of modern Russia and who might emerge as the successor to Vladimir Putin.

When Putin's reign comes to an end, who will become the new president of Russia? An oligarch, or someone else?

Since rising to power, Vladimir Putin has kept a strong hold over the oligarchs of Russia. With these oligarchs being some of his closest allies, it has long been assumed that one of them will take control of Russia once Putin leaves office. But, in this interview, historian and author Mark Galeotti argues that the successor could come from a different class - the minigarchs.

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Mark Galeotti is a British historian, lecturer, and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs. He is also the director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence, as well as an honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, and an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy.

00:00 Introduction
00:57 What do you mean by the term "minigarchs"?
03:08 What is the history of the minigarchs and their relationship to Putin?
07:02 Before his rise to power, was Putin in the same class as the minigarchs?
08:17 How do the minigarchs fit into the hierarchy of modern Russia?
12:36 By virtue of their lower position, are the minigarchs more likely to take risks than the oligarchs?
14:45 What role might the minigarchs play in Russia's short and long-term future?
19:39 Do the minigarchs share Putin's vision for Russia?
23:28 As a post-Soviet generation, do the minigarchs see Russia as less of a global superpower?
25:47 Do the minigarchs see an alliance with the West as the best route forward for Russia?
29:23 Does Putin share the same concerns about Russia's relationship with China?
32:39 Why do some groups in Russia worry about an unbalanced relationship with China, but not with the West?

[TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

Who do you think could replace Vladimir Putin? Will it be one of the minigarchs, the oligarchs, or someone else entirely? Let us know what you think in the comments!

[RobinAdair-shez]

This is one of the best interviews of Mark Galeotti I've watched or listened to. A very helpful insight into Russia today.

[candelas]

Always pleasure to listen to Mark Galeotti

[ralfmatters]

Mark Galeotti is an international treasure

[tobiaswebb]

Excellent questions. MG is always insightful.

[amandadonaghey]

Great interview. You asked all my questions 👍
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[dustyfairview]

Galeoti on bass, stephen kotkin on rhythm, timothy snyder keyboards/vocals with anne applebaum on drums?

[ericwillis]

It's difficult to see how Russia, so vast, so centralized, so divided into the few excessively rich and so many disenfranchised poor, with so little production, and so much extraction and exploitation, and such a long history of autocracy and kleptocracy, can survive in a modern world. Which is, I suppose, why they are so determined to recreate the past. Other countries have a future, but Russia has only a past.

[aj]

The 3 best experts on anything Russia, Marc, Galeotti, and Marc Galeotti.

[PaulsBees]

Good interview. The interviewer didn't get in the way of the interviewee, who was allowed to get on and speak.

[jim]

Centuries of serfdom formed a Russian pattern of behavior: servility to those above, tyranny to those below.

[ifgwelf]

This was an illuminating interview great stuff.

[ewartmouton]

I think we need regime change at home first and maybe deal with our own oligarchs 😂

[Elegant-Capybara]

He has been grooming a successor for a while now, one Mihail Azarin. Talk in Russian circles is that he will be made deputy minister of the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) and then pushed through the pipeline of Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

[paulh]

Thank you very much for doing this video. It adds a lot of clarity and bigger picture explanation of Russia. That Putin is lazy is a fantastic insight.

[charlesa]

Excellent analysis of Russia ...viewed through a British lens.

[paulwatson]

12 minutes to answer the first question. You can always count on Mark Galeotti for a double helping of intellectual green vegetables. (Thank you Vlad Vexler.) Time to take a nap and digest all this goodness...

[thomasbenian]

Mark Galeotti and his stains in the tea cup. He knows it all from outside.

[rcchin]

So.. mafia. :P
Thanks for the biography!

[stevematthews]

I might think that, where Putin's generation of former KGB agents may dream of restoring a version of the Soviet Union, the post Soviet generation might view that period as a failure. Not that they don't crave power, but the old SU may not be their model to emulate.