It is telling that the Agency for Strategic Initiatives that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to create was unveiled during the same Volgograd speech in when he announced the All-Russia People’s Front. Unfortunately, the two projects face the same fate.
This agency is needed, Putin explained, to help build real career ladders — or “social elevators” as Putin called it — that the country’s young, ambitious professionals can climb and realize their talents. When looking for work, Putin said, “the young generation face a situation in which … all good positions are already filled.”
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