The regime of President Vladimir Putin began agony, so it is possible that in the future there will be a transition period in the Kremlin, which may be headed by Dmitry Medvedev.

This opinion was expressed in an interview with "The Present Tense" by the Russian writer Viktor Erofeev.

"The Russian future is unpredictable. To guess what will happen is does not mean to be serious.. Clearly, it is open to the monstrous consequences of an even more harsh and obscurantist regime for a while. Then everything can fall apart. Or in the future there will be a transitional period, which may be headed by the same Medvedev, "the writer believes..

According to him, in the Kremlin they never thought of Medvedev as their.

"Medvedev is a funny figure. On the one hand, he has quite a liberal background. On the other hand, once he showed his enormous lack of will at the turn of 2011-2012, giving up the struggle for a second term or simply for taking this term. He surrendered, surrendered, like a man who after that can no longer come to himself. Then he was surrounded in a remarkable way by corruption, "notes Erofeev.

Now, according to him, the long agony of the Putin regime is going on, so he will rush towards tightening.

"And in this agony there can appear absolutely monstrous representatives of the future power. But on the other hand, in reality, the elite is not riddled with an ideological conflict with the West. It hides, but it is not anti-Western in its mass. If you give her the floor, then the elite, rather, will go to reconciliation with the West, "said Yerofeyev.

As reported by the "Observer". Earlier in Russia they said who would become Putin's heir.

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