Andrey Malgin: “Putin appears again in the circus arena”
“In general, of course, if Putin were an intelligent person, he would not have gone to the polls in 2018. “I’m tired, I’m leaving” - and would have repeated the trick with Medvedev,” the journalist writes on his Facebook page. "Medvedev would have released political prisoners, instructed the Duma to repeal the most odious laws, gotten out of Donbass and returned the border to Ukraine. In short, he would have forced the West to applaud. He would have cursed Stalin.