Putin Core Team On Its Way to Being as Old as Brezhnev’s Politburo Was

Paul Goble

            Staunton, October 21 – Vladimir Putin has hyped his youthful physical well being so often that many are in danger of forgetting that at the end of his current term in 2924, he will be 72, the Ustinov Trolling Telegram channel says. But even more, his closest entourage will in many cases be as old or older and thus resemble the aging Leonid Brezhnev’s Politburo.

            The Telegram channel lists these ages in 2024 of the President’s men: Ivanov – 71, Shoygu – 69, Chaika – 73, Bastrykin – 71, Zorkin – 81, Lebedev – 81, Patrushev – 74, Bortnikov – 73, Sobyanin – 66, Chemezov – 74, Sechin – 66, Rotnberg –73, Kovalchuk – 73 and Timchenko – 72 (rusmonitor.com/komanda-putina-priblizhaetsya-po-vozrastu-k-politbyuro-brezhneva.html).

Even the youthful Medvedev will be 59.

While these are ages in which many leaders in other countries are still vigorous, they are older in Russia where 43 percent of males do not live to 65.