Why is Putin?

The following article by the Academician of RAS Sergey Glazyev was published in the newspaper “Zavtra” (№ 9, 2012) a few days before the presidential elections in Russia. In the opinion of the Editorial Board, the main advantage of the article consists in the fact that it outlines the key conditions that make it possible to realize the priority development policy in Russia. The article is a reissue of a newspaper text; it has been reprinted with the consent of the author.