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Shujie Yao, Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development, is the head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.
The message of Vladimir Putin’s call in his recent state-of-the-nation speech for a constitutional overhaul is not that the Russian regime is going to be transformed; it isn’t. Rather, the message is that Putin knows his regime is on the wrong side of history – and he is dead set on keeping it there.
