Home Geopolitics Putinism Is “Global Political Lifehack For Governing” Or The New Religion Of... America and the WorldGeopoliticsUS Politics Putinism Is “Global Political Lifehack For Governing” Or The New Religion Of The Masses? – Source – Russia Insight (10/25/2019) By wsw staff - October 25, 2019 Presidential aide Vladislav Surkov characterized “Putinism” as a “functioning ideology of the everyday, with all its social innovations and productive contradictions.” He also labeled it a “global political lifehack for governing.”