Blog vg-saveliev: "What's going on with Putin?"

“It didn’t all start suddenly. First, after the resignation of the Ministry of Regional Development Govorun and Deputy Prime Minister Surkov, Putin stopped attacking Medvedev’s government.
Then he allowed the experiment with Navalny in the Moscow mayoral elections, right up to disavowing the decision of the Kirov Court. Then the competition policy was proclaimed.

Roizman was allowed to become mayor. Nemtsov broke into the Yaroslavl Duma. Finally, the first pardon happened even earlier. Sobchak was forgiven, as you remember. And not only the very moderate Ponomarev, but even the radical Ryzhkov was allowed to talk with Putin. By the way, at the same time Putin somehow stopped flirting with Kudrin. Although here, perhaps, he was simply offended by the Ministry of Internal Affairs reform project.”