Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, will not be able to compete with Vladimir Putin in the next presidential election in Russia, but he is quite "cool" and popular enough to be considered a possible successor to Putin in this post.

This opinion was expressed to the "Observer" by the Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin.

"Kadyrov - the most famous of the heads of Russian regions. We have 85 subjects of the federation, but if we ask for a quick recollection of the governors, then an ordinary citizen is unlikely to count even five people. Kadyrov is known throughout the country - he is certainly the most famous of the regional chiefs, "the political scientist admitted.. "He always sticks out in the TV, he always speaks out for Putin - that is, he is under Putin's wing. He's young, he's determined.. He is at war against the "Khokhlovs" and "assholes", in Syria and elsewhere. His popularity is really growing, "- added Oreshkin.

At the same time, he stressed: "This does not mean that he can be a rival to Putin in the presidential elections. In no way. In fact, however, nationalism in Russia is strong enough, and "churk" to elect as president yet no one will be ".

"The problem is different. Kadyrov is Putin in the square. Putin - verticalist, leader, soft version of Stalin. And Kadyrov is a much tougher version of Stalin, in spite of the fact that Stalin considers him an enemy of his people, "the political scientist explained..

According to him, "when Putin leaves - and sooner or later Putin will leave - in Russia" with the absence of an understandable legal mechanism for changing power, "the process of searching for a suitable replacement for the first person. At the same time, "the question of who will be the successor of the leader will be decided not in the space of electoral competition, but in the space of the steeper one, who has more bayonets," suggested Oreshkin.

In this context, he noted that "Kadyrov has his own army, Shoigu has his own army, the FSB has its own armed units". "Will take into account the option of popularity. Shoigu is popular - he is a "strong warrior," Lavrov is popular - he "repels the US". And Kadyrov in this glorious collective is also a tough kid, "said the political scientist..

He added that in the Russian society it is accepted to respect the "cool" and "deeply despise" all sorts of democrats who are considered "weaklings".

"Kadyrov's popularity is growing, and I did not expect this from the Russian people. In my opinion, this is a little too. But this is a logical consequence of Putin's degradation of political culture and degradation of what is called a sociocultural background, "the political scientist summed up..

As the "Observer" wrote, earlier the Russian writer Viktor Erofeev in an interview with Ekho Moskvy said that Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov enjoys increasing love among Russians, which gives him good prospects for nominating his Russian presidential candidate in the future.

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