2025-01-01
22 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm Rosie Blore.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
But, and I don't know if you know this, people call me J Dog.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
What will happen in Britain this year?
As part of our series forecasting the main themes and events of 2025, our political editor offers his predictions.
And employees have them, buildings have them, even whole businesses have them.
It turns out that nicknames can work to the benefit of a brand.
Unless, of course, the brand refers to itself by its nickname.
That's not how it work.
First up though, 25 years ago on New Year's Eve, Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia.
It came as a surprise to everyone.
Even seemingly his hand picked successor, Prime.
Minister Putin, hurriedly cancelled plans to travel with his family to St.
Petersburg, where he'd made arrangements to celebrate the new Year with relatives and friends.
Instead, he's now moving into the President's quarters inside the Kremlin.
Two and a half decades on, Vladimir Putin is still in power as the war in Ukraine has played out.
We've looked at his motivations on the show time and again and the analysis time and again has come out the same for him.