Evgeny Kiselev: “Putin for the kingdom!”

“I immediately remembered how, back in early 1997, information suddenly appeared in the Western media, out of nowhere - with reference to informed sources in the Kremlin - that our top officials were studying the possibility of reviving a constitutional monarchy in Russia.

We then showed detailed material on the former NTV in my “Itogi”, trying to figure out whether there was something behind these rumors, but we did not hear anything definite from our Kremlin sources. One of the then presidential aides, however, explained that anything can happen. They say that in the depths of the presidential administration, any scenarios for all occasions can be discussed - as they say, at the working level - but there is a huge distance between them and real projects.”