Vladimir Putin has done virtually everything to ensure he’ll be able to remain Russian president for life after a referendum last week, when officials said a majority of voters approved a series of changes to the constitution. The veteran human rights activist Tanya Lokshina joins Susan and Greg to discuss what the process revealed about politics under Putin, what’s changed in the constitution and what it means for the country’s future.

 

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Guests

TANYA LOKSHINA

Associate director, Human Rights Watch Europe and Central Asia division

 

 

Hosts

GREGORY FEIFER

Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs

Journalist, author of Russians: The People Behind the Power

 

SUSAN CORKE

Director, Transatlantic Democracy Working Group

Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

 

The Cable is produced by Rebecca Picard

 

 

Lead image credit: By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87885728