Putin Doesn't Need Donbass (east

Putin Has An Obvious Problem. His Country's Economy Is In Stagnation. He Needs To Constantly Be Pointing A Figure At Who Is At Fault. America Is At Fault. He Needs To Show Those Fronts - Those Directions In Which He Is Defeating America. In Syria, For Example, In Syria, He Is Defeating America; Not Isis, He's Defeating America.

Every Politician Deep Inside Is Authoritarian. If The Person Doesn't Have Ambition, That's Not A Politician. Society Needs To Put Every Ambitious, Every Effective Politician Into Such A Position That It Helps - That This Person Helps Improve Society. That's Why I'm Always Talking About Need To Change The System Rather Than Should We Go With Navalny Or Gudkov Or Yavlinsky Or Khodorkovsky. We All Have Our Ambitions. We're All Ambitious People.

What's Important To Me Now Is To Uphold My Good Name And Achieve A Fair Court Decision - The Past Cannot Be Recovered Anyway.

A Left Turn In The Fate Of Russia Is As Necessary As It Is Inevitable.

People Expect Some Kinds Of Decisions From Putin That Will Help Them See Their Own Future. A Significant Part Of The People That He Relies On Are Quite Content With Him Telling Them That Nothing Is Going To Change. But That Part Of The Elite That Does Want To See Some Changes And Improvements Are Going To Expect Him To, In His Next Term, Bring Russia Back Into The Club Of The Great Powers.