Editing Radical centrism (section)

=== Russia ===
The political scientist [[Richard Sakwa]] described [[Putinism]] as radical centrism as late as 2015, noting its radicalisation with regard to the pre-2012 classical stage,<ref>{{citation |last=Sakwa |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Sakwa |chapter=Conclusion: Monism vs. Pluralism |title=Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives |editor-last1=Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska |editor-first1=Agnieszka |editor-last2=Sakwa |editor-first2=Richard |location=Bristol |publisher=[[E-International Relations]] |year=2015 |p=268 |url=http://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/E_LIB/PDF/ukr0002080.pdf#page=268}}</ref> when it represented "typical centrism" by eschewing extremes of left and right, and promoting a strong state that would oversee economic development in the national interest.<ref>{{citation |last=Sakwa |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Sakwa |title=Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |pp=8-9, 27, 76–78}}</ref>