Medvedev is a clown, not a potential Putin successor – Zelenskyy aide

It is a mistake to think that Vladimir Putin’s successor will rule in the same way as the current dictator, Presidential Office advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview with 24TV on Nov. 17.

Russian Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev belongs to the category of jesters and will continue to act as a clown until the end, he believes.

"The former president of the aggressor state has no influence on anything and makes no decisions," he stated.

“He can't be a candidate for dictator, because no one will believe that a clown is a dictator.

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”It is a mistake to think that Putin’s successor will rule the way the dictator did, Podolyak said, calling it “a conspiracy of the elites.”

Putin's successor must be such a charismatic, passionate person that everyone is afraid to violate the internal elite agreements that were made under Putin.

"Patrushev Jr. is not such a person," Podolyak said.

“He lacks charisma. He is not an influential person for political elites. Patrushev Sr. maybe, although even he raises questions, but the younger one is a fiction.”

Once the core of the system changes, the elites will propose to rewrite their "internal contract.” Like, “let's agree in a new way on who will have what rights,” said Podolyak.

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To speed this up, the basic myth – that Putin is a brave, influential person who controls all processes – must be destroyed, Podolyak argues. This is something that the leader of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, failed to do thoroughly.

Late on Oct. 27, reports began to spread on Telegram that Putin had died at his residence in Valdai, after which the security of Putin's alleged double was "strengthened." The "primary source" was the General SVR channel, which regularly writes about the Russian leader’s alleged health problems.

On Oct. 23, some media outlets picked up information about Putin's cardiac arrest. This message first appeared on the anonymous Telegram channel General SVR. It was reported that Putin had allegedly "fallen down in his bedroom, convulsively writhing on the floor, rolling his eyes."

The next day, Putin's spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that these rumors were just another "malarkey." According to him, Putin's health is "fine now."

This is not the first time that the Russian dictator's health problems have been discussed. During Russia's invasion of Ukraine, various hypotheses about Putin's illnesses were discussed in dozens of media publications.

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