Russian President Vladimir Putin has streamlined the tax system, but not modernized country. The environment of the Russian President believes that he is in a bad mental state and panics.

People often say that Russian history chooses a direction between chaos and despotism. Putin is the rare Kremlin leader who chose both of these courses. His rough hand brought the apparent stability after shaky decades to the end of 2014 to bring their own "big trouble," writes Matthew Kaminsky in The Wall Street Journal, reports Censor.NET with reference to zn.ua.

The coming to power in 1999, the KGB officer promised to stabilize the state, which was collapsing. Boris Yeltsin, who released the last bullet in the Soviet Union, faced with anarchy, uncertainty, and economic disasters. After it was time for Putin.

He streamlined the tax system, but did little for Russia's modernization. This failure was not visible on the background of the recent fall in oil prices. Rich, the middle class has become typical of Putin's "era".

However, as noted in the article, for all its inflated popularity ratings Putin never won fair elections, unlike Yeltsin, or love of the nation.

In 2014, Putin could no longer play the role of a "Putin-modernizer", he became a "Putin-President of the wartime". Assertiveness abroad in conjunction with triumph at the Olympic games in Sochi seems to have increased the popularity of Putin in Russia. The Ukrainians want to live in a country with Western democracy has become a direct threat model Russian President kleptocratic authoritarianism. Military action in combination with an internal celebration of the Olympic games in Sochi, apparently, has increased its support of "home".

"But he also miscalculated," writes the author. The death of 298 civilians in connection with the crash of a Malaysian aircraft in Eastern Ukraine has exacerbated the confrontation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Putin. Europeans first having a different opinion, but immediately after the attack Russia to Ukraine found itself enough courage to impose serious sanctions and to stick together. President Obama still refuses to help protect Ukraine, placing hope in the negotiations. But the West itself has exceeded the low expectations of the Kremlin.

Oil prices fell, and as in Soviet times, the best and most ambitious minds are leaving the country. To Putin, says the author, are the words of Prince Dolgorukov of Napoleon in War and peace": "the Retreat against his method of warfare". Putin never wanted to coaxing, de-escalate or compromise, to use any of the solutions offered by several European leaders or officials of the White house. They should think about how quickly to bring it to his Waterloo," reads the article.

"Now his current troubles have convinced people who often talk to him, Putin in a bad mental state, he is crazy and panic. He injuried his people and neighbors and must be afraid that the next time could mean his death. In 2015 or later this ruler will come to an end. It would be terrible" - summarizes the author.

The New York Times wrote that the Internet and the collapse of the Russian economy can defeat Putin. The opposition in Russia is waiting for a brutal fight, to help overthrow the Putin regime it can the economic crisis in the country.

Source: http://censor.net.ua/