The New Authority
How credibility survives after institutional trust collapses
In August 1996, a few days after Pravda’s last issue, Vladimir Putin moved to Moscow for a position in Boris Yeltsin’s second Presidential administration. The former KGB agent had found some success in St. Petersburg politics, but his mentor, Anatoly Sobchak, had just been voted out of the mayor’s office.
His new appointment—Deputy Chief of the President…
