We may soon see the slyest move ever made. Call it a coup if you like. President Vladimir Putin has found a way to get around Russia's constitutional limit of being president for a maximum of 2 terms. Since he is elegible to candidate for a third term, why not just take it?
HOW???? You ask.
Well, turns out the man is no fool, and looks like he is gonna do on the big stage things, the way just about everything get's done around here.
Even though he cannt candidate for President, there is nothing stooping to candidate for the position of Prime-minister. He will be nominated (and elected) as Chair of the largest polical party in Russia (United Russia). Putin has also nominated one of his lackey's, a virtual nobody wo is more faithful than a litter of puppies, to be elected as the next president. With Putins backing, this nobody is a shoe in. When Putin gets elected as Prime-minister, after a short but acceptable interval, the nobody president will have something drastic happen to him (illness, mental breakdown, death...) and of course the Prime-minister will have to replace him!!
Nice smooth legal bloodless coup!!!