Ilyin V.A. President Vladimir Putin’s Third Four-Year Term: Contradictory Outcomes – an Expec ted Result. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 2016, no. 2 (44), pp. 9-21. DOI: 10.15838/esc.2016.2.44.1
In mid-March, Vladimir Putin’s third four-year presidency came to an end. If the term of office of the head of state were not prolonged in 2008, then the seventh presidential election would take place today, and therefore, a critical question arises: “What has been done and what needs to be done?... What does the President have in store for the people?”