Politburo 2.0: Renovation Instead of Dismantling
TL;DR — The Russian elite mapped as a politburo — who holds what, and how the balance shifted over five years.
12 October 2017, the anniversary report in the Politburo 2.0 series.
Minchenko Consulting’s framework treats the Russian elite as a politburo with an inner circle and candidate members, and tracks movement between tiers — who gained, who was demoted, which clans absorbed which assets.
One of the few systematic public attempts to map Russian power as a structure rather than as a personality. Its predictive record is mixed and it is produced by a firm with its own access to protect, but the method is the useful part. Pairs with Reflexive Processes and Control.
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