Alexander Bortnikov is said to be integral to the ideology Vladimir Putin has adopted - and could end up replacing the Russian President in the years to come.
Speculation about Putin's fate is rife, with Ukraine's intelligence agency now claiming that Russian elites are planning to remove Vladimir Putin as Russia's
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