Last week, the Russian media continued to be proud that Putin was once again recognized as the most influential politician in the world according to the American magazine Forbes. This reaction reminded me a little an old joke about how Mom-Mol teaches my daughter to sit quietly in the closet and not fly in the apartment during the day, because it is dangerous.

Optimists who predict the short-lived existence of the authoritarian regime in Russia justify their predictions by the fact that all political processes have decisively accelerated in the information age. Alas, for now we can state a decisive acceleration of the political degradation of Russia, clearly moving from a relatively soft authoritarian model to a completely dense totalitarianism.

In the Kremlin Nothing November 10, 2015 Vladimir Nadein According to the thoughtlessness of the sick, ignorant and frightened old man, the head of the most immense country on earth was a nondescript shorty with an extremely deceptive appearance. In Smolny, he was considered a sweet holu, in the Kremlin - a simpleton, obviously insignificant for the title role.