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The term Putinism is often used to describe the unique peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors and gaffes that have occurred in the public speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The term Putinism is also used to a describe a conspiracy theory stating that all political powers and most important economic assets in Russia are allegedly owned by a group of former state security officials ("siloviks"). The system was established under leadership of Russian president Vladimir Putin and therefore named after him. .

The privatization of Russian state and economic assets has been allegedly accomplished by a clique of Putin's close associates and friends who gradually became a leading group of Russian oligarchs and who "seized control over the financial, media and administrative resources of the Russian state" and restricted democratic freedoms and human rights.

Political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky considers Putinism as "the highest and culminating stage of bandit capitalism in Russia” . He believes that "Russia is not corrupt. Corruption is what happens in all countries when businessmen offer officials large bribes for favors. Today’s Russia is unique. The businessmen, the politicians, and the bureaucrats are the same people."

Andrei Illarionov, a former advisor of Vladimir Putin, describes this system as a new socio-political order, "distinct from any seen in our country before". In this model, members of the Corporation of Intelligence Service Collaborators took over the entire body of state power, follow an omerta-like behavior code, and "are given instruments conferring power over others – membership “perks”, such as the right to carry and use weapons". According to Illarionov, this "Corporation has seized key government agencies – the Tax Service, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, and the government-controlled mass media – which are now used to advance the interests of KSSS members. Through these agencies, every significant resource of the country – security/intelligence, political, economic, informational and financial – is being monopolized in the hands of Corporation members." The ideology of chekists is Nashism (“ours-ism”), the selective application of rights", he said.

Vladimir Putin himself admitted that "There is no such thing as a former KGB man" and that "A group of FSB colleagues dispatched to work undercover in the government has successfully completed its first mission." .

Russian politician Boris Nemtsov and commentator Kara-Murza define Putinism in Russia as "a one party system,censorship, a puppet parliament, ending of an independent judiciary, firm centralization of power and finances, and hypertrophied role of special services and bureaucracy, in particular in relation to business"

Columnist George Will said that "Putinism is uprooting the shallow seedlings of democracy across Russia's 11 time zones. Putinism is becoming a toxic brew of nationalism directed against neighboring nations, and populist envy, backed by assaults of state power, directed against private wealth. Putinism is a national socialism without the demonic element of its pioneer..." .

Se also

• Bushism
• Kaczyzm

References

1. Бирюков С. Ю. Проблема перевода путинизмов (на материале публикаций франкоязычных СМИ) / С. Ю. Бирюков // Материалы XIII Международной конференции студентов, аспирантов и молодых ученых «Ломоносов». — М.: Факультет иностранных языков и регионоведения МГУ, 2006. — С. 216—219
2. The Perils of Putinism, By Arnold Beichman, Washington Times, February 11, 2007
3. Putinism On the March, by George F. Will, Washington Post, November 30, 2004
4. The Essence of Putinism: The Strengthening of the Privatized State by Dmitri Glinski Vassiliev, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 2000
5. What is ‘Putinism’?, by Andranik Migranyan, Russia in Global affairs, 13 April, 2004
6. Putinism: highest stage of robber capitalism, by Andrei Piontkovsky, The Russia Journal, February 7-13, 2000. The title is an allusion to work "Imperialism as the last and culminating stage of capitalism" by Vladimir Lenin
7. Review of Andrei's Pionkovsky's Another Look Into Putin's Soul by the Honorable Rodric Braithwaite, Hoover Institute
8. Andrei Illarionov: Approaching Zimbabwe (Russian) Partial English translation
9. A Chill in the Moscow Air - by Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova - Newsweek International, Feb. 6, 2006
10. The KGB Rises Again in Russia - by R.C. Paddock - Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2000
11. Russia After The Presidential Election by Mark A. Smith Conflict Studies Research Centre

Further reading

• Putin’s Militocracy by Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White
• Russia under Putin. The making of a neo-KGB state., The Economist, Aug 23, 2007
• Russia's government. Putin's people., The Economist, Aug 23, 2007
• The power of Chekists is incredibly stable by Olga Kryshtanovskaya
• Russia: Death and resurrection of the KGB By J. Michael Waller, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization
• A Rogue Intelligence State? Why Europe and America Cannot Ignore Russia By Reuel Marc Gerecht

• Politics of Russia
• Political ideologies
• Conspiracy theories