As Vladimir Putin orchestrates the end of his presidency, a longtime strategy of sowing rifts between senior officials is helping him stay No. 1
MOSCOW—Some 18 months before President Vladimir Putin announced that he was appointing a new prime minister, the Russian leader dropped hints to a handful of senior officials that he was looking for a new right-hand man, according to people close to two candidates.
For months after the start of his fourth and, by law, final term in office in 2018, Mr. Putin held meetings with technocrats and politicians that raised questions about who, if anyone, would be chosen to succeed his longtime No. 2, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev—and...
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