{"id":6496,"date":"2022-02-01T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-old-guard-the-average-age-among-russias-political-elite-is-almost-on-par-with-the-brezhnev-era-but-putins-top-officials-are-still-younger-than-their-american-counterparts.html"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:26:14","slug":"the-old-guard-the-average-age-among-russias-political-elite-is-almost-on-par-with-the-brezhnev-era-but-putins-top-officials-are-still-younger-than-their-american-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-old-guard-the-average-age-among-russias-political-elite-is-almost-on-par-with-the-brezhnev-era-but-putins-top-officials-are-still-younger-than-their-american-counterparts.html","title":{"rendered":"The old guard The average age among Russia\u2019s political elite is almost on par with the Brezhnev era. But Putin\u2019s top officials are still younger than their American counterparts."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny EmbedBlock-module_desktop__SF5a_ EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\">Sergey Chirikov \/ AFP \/ Scanpix \/ LETA<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_lead__35nXx\">When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, the mandatory retirement age for government officials was 65 years old. During Dmitry Medvedev\u2019s presidency in 2010, this age limit was lowered to 60. But just three years later, after Putin had returned to the presidency, it was raised to 70 years old. Since then, the Russian president has been gradually extending or abolishing the mandatory retirement age for senior civil servants, as Putin\u2019s entourage continues to age along with him. In a new investigation, iStories journalists calculated the average age of Russia\u2019s ruling elite. Here\u2019s what they found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">In January 2022, iStories\u2019s journalists gathered up-to-date data on the ages of the leaders of key Russian government bodies, including the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security Council, the Presidential Administration (Putin\u2019s Executive Office), the State Duma, the Federation Council, as well as federal services and agencies. Separately, they calculated the ages of all the heads of Russia\u2019s regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Then, the journalists calculated the average and median ages of all of Russia\u2019s highest officials, as well as the share of people among them who are of retirement age (61.5 years old for men, 56.5 years old for women). In addition, iStories compared the ages of members of the Russian Cabinet and Parliament with those of their counterparts in other countries; namely, in Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>The average age among the leadership of Russia\u2019s highest bodies of legislative and executive power is currently 55 years old. <\/strong>This is slightly lower than the average under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (55.9 years old), but higher than under the Soviet Union\u2019s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev (51.6 years old) and under Russia\u2019s first President Boris Yeltsin (50.2 years old). It\u2019s also higher than the average age during the early years of Vladimir Putin\u2019s presidency (50.9 years old).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>Russia\u2019s National Security Council has the \u201coldest\u201d membership of any of the country\u2019s highest decision-making bodies. <\/strong>The average age of its members is 62 years old (the median age is 65 years old). In addition, the Security Council has the highest proportion of members who are of retirement age \u2014 57 percent. Many of the council members began their careers during the Soviet period, and both the Security Council\u2019s head, President Vladimir Putin, and secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, served in the KGB and led its successor, the FSB. (As Meduza reported previously, the National Security Council appears to be orchestrating the decisions on \u201cforeign agent\u201d and \u201cundesirable organization\u201d designations.)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"RelatedBlock-module_header__2SuWP\"><\/h3>\n<p>The Enemies List How the authorities divide the labor of crushing Russia\u2019s free press<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>Putin\u2019s Executive Office (the Presidential Administration or AP) comes in second place <\/strong>\u2014 the average age of its leadership is 58 years old (the median age is 57 years old), and a third of its officials are of retirement age. It\u2019s followed closely by Russia\u2019s Senate \u2014 the Federation Council, \u2014 where the average age among senators is 57 years old (the median age is 58 years old). In addition, 39 percent of the Federation Council\u2019s members have crossed the threshold for retirement (this indicator is only higher on the National Security Council). Russia\u2019s oldest government official in a top-level post is also presiding there \u2014 92-year-old Nikolai Ryzhkov, who served as the last prime minister of the USSR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The average age of Cabinet members is 54 years old <\/strong>(the median age is 55 years) and a quarter of them are of retirement age. Russia\u2019s oldest minister is longtime Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who turns 72 this year.\u00a0<strong>The average age of State Duma deputies is 53 years old and a quarter of lawmakers are of retirement age. <\/strong>Russia\u2019s oldest lawmaker is 85-year-old Vladimir Resin, who was first elected to the State Duma in 2011 and, as iStories reported previously, has never said a word during a parliamentary session.<strong>The youngest Russian officials in high-level positions are governors. <\/strong>The average age among the heads of regions is 51 years old (the median age is 50 years old), and only 12 percent are currently eligible to retire.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"RelatedBlock-module_header__2SuWP\"><\/h3>\n<p>Five years of silence More than 20 State Duma lawmakers haven\u2019t said a word in parliament since they were elected in 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>All of Russia\u2019s highest state bodies have \u201caged\u201d in the last 10 years. <\/strong>Since 2012, the average age of National Security Council and Cabinet members has increased the most \u2014 by seven years. The average age of top officials in Putin\u2019s administration has gone up by six years, while the average age of lawmakers and senators has gone up by two years. Governors are the only exception to this trend \u2014 their average age has decreased by one year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>The average age of the ruling elite depends on personnel rotation. However, the closer a state body is to the Russian president, the more infrequent the turnover. <\/strong>Turnover is the lowest on the National Security Council (where 49 percent of members have held their seats since 2012) and in the Presidential Administration (where 39 percent of the leadership hasn\u2019t changed in the last 10 years). President Vladimir Putin personally appoints National Security Council members and the AP\u2019s leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cabinet of Ministers has seen 76 percent turnover in the last 10 years. <\/strong>The biggest shuffle took place in 2020, after Mikhail Mishustin was appointed to replace Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister.\u00a0<strong>The governor corps has seen 82 percent changeover. <\/strong>Political scientist Andrey Kolesnikov from the Carnegie Moscow Center attributes this to the Russian president has been seeking \u201crejuvenation at the middle level.\u201d \u201cPutin will be in place as long as he needs to, but he will need the support of young cohorts of managers,\u201d he explains.<strong>The composition of elected bodies have also changed significantly<\/strong>, Kolesnikov notes. Indeed, the Federation Council has seen 85 percent turnover; the State Duma \u2014 67 percent. But this doesn\u2019t indicate a real change of power, since the parliament is \u201cloaded with pre-pensioners\u201d or people waiting for appointments to the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD\"><strong>Russia\u2019s top officials are younger than their American counterparts, whose average age is 60 years old. <\/strong>They are also younger than their counterparts in Kazakhstan (57 years old) and the UK (56 years old). However, they are older than their counterparts in France (54 years old), Belarus (53 years old), and Germany (51 years old). Among all the countries iStories analyzed, Ukraine has the youngest political elite. After Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president in 2019 at the age of 41, the average age of high-level Ukrainian officials became 44 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"DonatesTeaser-module_title__hs-yr\">Meduza is working for you And we need your support<\/h3>\n<p>Okay!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_caption__1ezSo\">Summary by <strong>Olga Korelina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_credit__PuFyX\">Translation by <strong>Eilish Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2022\/01\/31\/the-old-guard\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Chirikov \/ AFP \/ Scanpix \/ LETA When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, the mandatory retirement age for government officials was 65 years old. During Dmitry Medvedev\u2019s presidency in 2010, this age limit was lowered to 60. 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