Hi everyone, I am Lu Luo, today we are going to talk about the sudden plot of the palace senator.

Recently, Kremlin spokesman Peskov confirmed that Deputy Director of the Russian Presidential Office Dmitry Kozak has resigned and has voluntarily resigned.

by Kozak

To know, Kozak is not an ordinary figure, he is a "senatorial" official of the Keri Palace. Since 1999 when Putin became Prime Minister of Russia, Kozak joined Putin's government along with other officials of the city of St. Petersburg, which is more than 20 years, during which Kozak also served as Russian Deputy Prime Minister, until 2020 entered the Russian Presidential Office as Deputy Director.

Therefore, this time Kozak's resignation attracted international attention, and the US media The New York Times used the word "rare" to describe this incident. You know, during Putin's administration, it was rare for senior Russian officials to resign. Putin generally transferred officials to other positions instead of letting them leave the government system.

According to the New York Times, Kozak is the ¡°only high-ranking official in Putin¡¯s core circle who is openly opposed to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict¡±, although he has never made such statements in public, he has privately repeatedly stated to his colleagues that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was a mistake, and even earlier this year suggested that Putin ¡°stop military operations and resume peace talks.¡±

by Putin

If it's true as the US media said, then Kozak has touched Putin's "reverse scale". You must know that the reason why the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has lasted for so long is essentially due to NATO's continued eastward expansion regardless of Russia's security concerns. Russia and NATO have not talked about it in recent years, but they have achieved little success. On the contrary, NATO even wants to put artillery on Russia's doorstep.

So, if peace talks could not solve the Russian concerns, and what the Russian side would do about Ukraine, these things have long been clearly seen by Putin and Khartoum, but Kozak insisted on ceasefire negotiations and a peaceful settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian issue, which belonged to the "extremely few" in the Khartoum core circle, and Kozak not only disagreed with Putin on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but also urged Putin to carry out a number of domestic reforms.

However, as an adviser to Putin for more than 20 years, even if there are disagreements, Putin will not easily "break the relationship", so Kozak may have initially proposed resignation. Peskov confirmed that Kozak after resignation "may consider entering the business world", it appears that he intends to leave the political arena and enter the business world.

Putin and Kozak

In fact, in Russian politics, the resignation of senior officials is rare, but it is not the case. For example, the former Sulkov, who was also Putin¡¯s head of state, is known as ¡°the Grey Bishop of the Kremlin¡± and ¡°the designer of Putin¡¯s political system¡±.

However, when Mr. Sulkov later returned to his post in the Kremlin, it showed that the personal changes in Russian politics were sometimes complicated, so the reason why Mr. Kozak resigned was why only he himself knew the most.

It can also be seen from this fact that there may indeed be some different voices within Russia on the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Kozak's departure may be just a normal personal change in Russian politics, and there are deeper reasons behind it. But in any case, it will not affect Russia's overall strategy and decisions in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

After all, Putin-led Russia has a strong cohesiveness and decision-making power and will not change what happens with the resignation of a senior official.