Russian President Vladimir Putin is an influential and intelligent person, but not powerful, because today's Russian Federation is a "poorly managed country".

This opinion was expressed by the Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva.

Commenting on the film, released on CNN, proving that Putin is the most powerful person in the world, since he can conduct domestic politics without restrictions, she said: "Of course, he is an influential person, but not the most powerful".

"Yes, Putin has built a vertical power, destroyed institutions that can restrain him and be a counterweight to the presidential power - and so very large in our country by law. But as a human rights defender, I deal with this vertical from top to bottom and from bottom to top. I can say that the strength of the federal government ends at the ministerial level ".

"The minister gives an order, and the local chief executes this order, if it is profitable for him, and if not profitable, he does not fulfill it or pretends to do it. The governor, on the one hand, holds his hands at the seams before the federal authorities, and on the other hand, he has local influential people, and they also need to be reckoned with. So he maneuvers, "Alekseeva explained..

"We have a very poorly managed country," she said.. "And it's not only in Putin. If we talk about his personal qualities, then, of course, he is smarter than Brezhnev, who was generally a nonentity. But man can not, no matter how genius he may be, - and Putin is just an intelligent man, no he is not a genius - he can not alone manage such a huge country ".

"Any large system is more difficult to control than a small one. Very difficult to manage. We need a lot of institutions that really operate, but we have nothing, "Alekseeva said..

"We have a country that is so poorly managed that I even wonder how people live and fulfill laws. Probably out of habit. Because in fact everything is in raznos, "- added the human rights activist.

In this context, the "Observer" asked to assess the likelihood of the disintegration of the Russian Federation. "We once already fell apart - we were the USSR," Alekseeva recalled.. "I do not know if this will continue. On the one hand, all the same, we are now monolithic in the sense that we are a country in which in all regions, except the North Caucasus, the majority is Russian. In this sense, we are stronger. But no one knows what Russia is waiting for. Once again I say: we are the largest country in the world, poorly managed ".

At the same time she stressed: "This question interests me least of all, because I'm not a politician, but a human rights activist. I'm interested in how people feel in this country.

If they are better, if they split up - let them separate. And if it's better to be together - let's be together. And how to be better - time will tell ".

As the "Observer" wrote, the American television channel CNN showed a documentary of journalist and political expert Farid Zakariya about President Vladimir Putin. The author of the film concludes that Putin is the most powerful person in the world, since he has the opportunity to pursue domestic policy without restrictions.