MOSCOW — In a New Year's address that fell off like a triumph lap, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed gratitude toward his nation Saturday in the wake of an uncontrollably fruitful 2016 that saw the Kremlin pioneer shore up Russia's standing abroad and secure a large group of capable geopolitical companions.
Putin heads into 2017 on a solid note, having facilitated a truce in Syria that sidelined the United States and having won the acclaim of President-elect Donald Trump by declining to strike back because of the Obama organization's choice to rebuff Moscow over its affirmed impedance in the U.S. race.
"We are working, and working effectively, and we are accomplishing much," Putin said in the broadly communicate address. "I might want to thank you for the triumphs and accomplishments, for your comprehension and trust, and for your actual, genuine look after Russia."
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Putin is as prominent as ever at home, and his stature abroad has been reinforced by Russia's driving part in the Syrian peace prepare, the ascent in nations in the Western partnership of patriots who support better ties with Moscow, and the feeling that the Kremlin can tip decisions with its programmers, trolls and political turn machines.
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The Post's Karen DeYoung takes a gander at the ramifications of the most recent measures taken by the Obama organization against Russia and its obstruction in the U.S. race. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Indeed, even at the stature of the Soviet Union's energy, the idea that Moscow could mediate in a U.S. presidential decision to attempt to impact the result was something saved for Cold War dream; now, the CIA says it simply happened. It may entice to take a gander at the rundown of triumphs in Putin's record in the course of recent months and accept that nothing can stop the Kremlin.
In any case, Russia is not the Soviet Union, this is not the Cold War, and Moscow is not searching for global control. Putin's objective is restricted to diminishing U.S. impact while guaranteeing Russia's indispensable advantages, and the power he can venture is still constrained by a feeble economy and a worldwide achieve that could not hope to compare to that of the United States.
He can't act anyplace he needs, he can't do only it, and a considerable measure still relies on upon whether and how far President-elect Donald Trump chooses to oblige him.
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For the occasion, Trump is putting on a show of being a nearer companion to the recent Russian enemy than the political foundation he is going to head up in Washington, as confirm by the tweet of endorsement the president-elect sent over the way Putin took care of the Obama organization's approvals.
"Putin is attempting to verbalize new principles for the world with a little assistance from Western troublemakers," said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior partner at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "In any case, monetarily, Russia is still extremely frail, and politically, it is delicate."
Without a doubt, Russia is a poorer nation than it was three years back, when Putin went up against the West in the contention in Ukraine. As indicated by figures distributed in the Moscow Times, Russia's total national output achieved a pinnacle of $2.2 trillion in 2013 and has since declined to $1.3 trillion, lower than Italy, Brazil, and Canada, while the per capita GDP is beneath $9,000, as indicated by the International Monetary Fund. The nation stays reliant on the fare of common assets; auxiliary change of the economy and privatization of state industry has slowed down.
Russian mixes in Maryland and New York close down
See Photos Two extravagance withdraws where Russian ambassadors have gone for a considerable length of time to play tennis, sail and swim, were closed around the Obama organization.
The rate of Russians who had any investment funds tumbled from 72 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2016, as indicated by a year-end examination distributed on gazeta.ru. Without precedent for a long time, Russians are spending the greater part their cash on goods.
"Putin has one Russia; numerous Russians have another. The two don't generally cross quite," watched Alexei Gusarov, who has a television show on Ekho Moskvy radio.
Why does this make a difference?
Since the majority of Russia's energy moves, right now, depend altogether on Putin, in light of the fact that the Russian president has so viably solidified power.
"In Russia, just a single individual chooses what is to Russia's greatest advantage and what is most certainly not. There is no institutional or open contribution to consider," remarked Vladimir Frolov, a Moscow-based political investigator.
Putin's basic leadership has kept his prominence rating in the 80s for a considerable length of time, as per the Levada Center. Be that as it may, only 53 percent of Russians think the nation is going in the correct heading. Putin looks ready to win reelection in 2018, should he choose to run, yet it stays to be seen whether expanded monetary agony will dissolve that conviction.
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In the interim, Putin's ship of state sails on, and much like that undersize, smoke-burping plane carrying warship that changed the adjust of force in Syria, its prosperity relies on upon different nations giving it a chance to be fruitful.
Putin has succeeded in light of the fact that he provokes the United States when Russian key interests are in question and Russia has a sensible shot of winning, said Simon Saradzhyan, establishing executive of the Russia Matters Project at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Saradzhyan contends that the essential thought here is whether the United States will submit its full may: In Ukraine, U.S. crucial interests were not in question, and at last, he said, the Obama organization chose they were not in Syria, either.
"Soviet pioneers tried to counter the United States all over the place and anyplace," Saradzhyan said. "Putin has an a great deal more restricted viewpoint molded by limits of his nation's economy, socioeconomics and different parts of national may."
Putin said as much at his broadly communicate yearly news gathering, when he reacted to Trump's call to grow the U.S. atomic armory by saying that Russia's overhauls were proposed to beat any attacker yet not to go into a weapons contest "that we can't manage."
Not very far in the past, Russian barrier authorities drifted reestablishing Soviet-period bases in Cuba and Vietnam to oblige the recently obtained solid footing in Syria. That went no place quick.
Indeed, even as Putin steams into 2017 at the stature of his energy, the question is the thing that happens to Russia's standing the minute Trump takes control of the world's most capable country. While Moscow is probably going to keep on pushing to grow its impact where it can to the detriment of the United States, co-picking the new organization — for instance, in the battle against psychological warfare — wherever it is plausible, Putin is probably not going to act in a way that transparently challenges the new U.S. president.
Putin heads into 2017 on a solid note, having facilitated a truce in Syria that sidelined the United States and having won the acclaim of President-elect Donald Trump by declining to strike back because of the Obama organization's choice to rebuff Moscow over its affirmed impedance in the U.S. race.
"We are working, and working effectively, and we are accomplishing much," Putin said in the broadly communicate address. "I might want to thank you for the triumphs and accomplishments, for your comprehension and trust, and for your actual, genuine look after Russia."
[ Putin says he won't expel U.S. ambassadors as he hopes to develop relations with Trump ]
Putin is as prominent as ever at home, and his stature abroad has been reinforced by Russia's driving part in the Syrian peace prepare, the ascent in nations in the Western partnership of patriots who support better ties with Moscow, and the feeling that the Kremlin can tip decisions with its programmers, trolls and political turn machines.
What the U.S. measures against Russia mean for the relationship between the two nations Embed Share Play Video2:40
The Post's Karen DeYoung takes a gander at the ramifications of the most recent measures taken by the Obama organization against Russia and its obstruction in the U.S. race. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Indeed, even at the stature of the Soviet Union's energy, the idea that Moscow could mediate in a U.S. presidential decision to attempt to impact the result was something saved for Cold War dream; now, the CIA says it simply happened. It may entice to take a gander at the rundown of triumphs in Putin's record in the course of recent months and accept that nothing can stop the Kremlin.
In any case, Russia is not the Soviet Union, this is not the Cold War, and Moscow is not searching for global control. Putin's objective is restricted to diminishing U.S. impact while guaranteeing Russia's indispensable advantages, and the power he can venture is still constrained by a feeble economy and a worldwide achieve that could not hope to compare to that of the United States.
He can't act anyplace he needs, he can't do only it, and a considerable measure still relies on upon whether and how far President-elect Donald Trump chooses to oblige him.
[ Trump and Putin: A relationship where shared reverence is made a beeline for reality ]
For the occasion, Trump is putting on a show of being a nearer companion to the recent Russian enemy than the political foundation he is going to head up in Washington, as confirm by the tweet of endorsement the president-elect sent over the way Putin took care of the Obama organization's approvals.
"Putin is attempting to verbalize new principles for the world with a little assistance from Western troublemakers," said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior partner at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "In any case, monetarily, Russia is still extremely frail, and politically, it is delicate."
Without a doubt, Russia is a poorer nation than it was three years back, when Putin went up against the West in the contention in Ukraine. As indicated by figures distributed in the Moscow Times, Russia's total national output achieved a pinnacle of $2.2 trillion in 2013 and has since declined to $1.3 trillion, lower than Italy, Brazil, and Canada, while the per capita GDP is beneath $9,000, as indicated by the International Monetary Fund. The nation stays reliant on the fare of common assets; auxiliary change of the economy and privatization of state industry has slowed down.
Russian mixes in Maryland and New York close down
See Photos Two extravagance withdraws where Russian ambassadors have gone for a considerable length of time to play tennis, sail and swim, were closed around the Obama organization.
The rate of Russians who had any investment funds tumbled from 72 percent in 2013 to 27 percent in 2016, as indicated by a year-end examination distributed on gazeta.ru. Without precedent for a long time, Russians are spending the greater part their cash on goods.
"Putin has one Russia; numerous Russians have another. The two don't generally cross quite," watched Alexei Gusarov, who has a television show on Ekho Moskvy radio.
Why does this make a difference?
Since the majority of Russia's energy moves, right now, depend altogether on Putin, in light of the fact that the Russian president has so viably solidified power.
"In Russia, just a single individual chooses what is to Russia's greatest advantage and what is most certainly not. There is no institutional or open contribution to consider," remarked Vladimir Frolov, a Moscow-based political investigator.
Putin's basic leadership has kept his prominence rating in the 80s for a considerable length of time, as per the Levada Center. Be that as it may, only 53 percent of Russians think the nation is going in the correct heading. Putin looks ready to win reelection in 2018, should he choose to run, yet it stays to be seen whether expanded monetary agony will dissolve that conviction.
[Vladimir Putin, Russia's stupendous inquisitor and 'fixer-in-boss' ]
In the interim, Putin's ship of state sails on, and much like that undersize, smoke-burping plane carrying warship that changed the adjust of force in Syria, its prosperity relies on upon different nations giving it a chance to be fruitful.
Putin has succeeded in light of the fact that he provokes the United States when Russian key interests are in question and Russia has a sensible shot of winning, said Simon Saradzhyan, establishing executive of the Russia Matters Project at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Saradzhyan contends that the essential thought here is whether the United States will submit its full may: In Ukraine, U.S. crucial interests were not in question, and at last, he said, the Obama organization chose they were not in Syria, either.
"Soviet pioneers tried to counter the United States all over the place and anyplace," Saradzhyan said. "Putin has an a great deal more restricted viewpoint molded by limits of his nation's economy, socioeconomics and different parts of national may."
Putin said as much at his broadly communicate yearly news gathering, when he reacted to Trump's call to grow the U.S. atomic armory by saying that Russia's overhauls were proposed to beat any attacker yet not to go into a weapons contest "that we can't manage."
Not very far in the past, Russian barrier authorities drifted reestablishing Soviet-period bases in Cuba and Vietnam to oblige the recently obtained solid footing in Syria. That went no place quick.
Indeed, even as Putin steams into 2017 at the stature of his energy, the question is the thing that happens to Russia's standing the minute Trump takes control of the world's most capable country. While Moscow is probably going to keep on pushing to grow its impact where it can to the detriment of the United States, co-picking the new organization — for instance, in the battle against psychological warfare — wherever it is plausible, Putin is probably not going to act in a way that transparently challenges the new U.S. president.
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