Sergey A. Karaganov. (№ 348127)

Putin is very sensitive to the opinion of the population. It's important to him. We are now experiencing the reaction time, but open a "Pandora's box" and you will find that our people - the anti-Westerners. Authoritarian Russia is not imposed from above. It is the result of our history that shaped our genetic code. Without the centralization of power could not develop and to ensure the safety of such a huge country with geographically not protected by borders. When this power is weakened in the early seventeenth century was a turmoil, the collapse and intervention of the poles. The same collapse, civil war, intervention - followed the democratic revolution of February 1917. And then came the Bolsheviks and the terror of the Gulag. I still think that the country miraculously did not die after the revolution of 1991 and the subsequent collapse.