Who writes this crap?
Irina Pavlova. A Russian historian in her 70s who has penned several Russian books on Stalinist power politics and the infrastructure of covert Kremlin operations.
Pavlova has been a close observer and writer of the transition of power in the Kremlin from the Glasnost/Perestroika era, to the Soviet collapse, to the Yeltsin era, till now. Putin will be the longest serving Russian leader since Josef Stalin... and whose predictions for Russia's [geo]political winds have consistently proven accurate and far ahead of their time.
She loves her country, deeply admires the West, and wants Russia to break free from its dark past.