Andrei Kozyrev: “He does not want to recognize it himself, I think. And, definitely, he does not want Russian people to understand what…”

Any dictator or any authoritarian, they suffer from the same problem that they surround themselves with boot licker, so to say our, Yes, men. And those Yes, men, they are afraid just to report.

The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military, but much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega yachts in Cyprus.

It is less possible than overthrow him. That’s Russian tradition. They fear to tell the boss the truth, but one day they might come with a weapon and escort him either to the grave or to retirement.

But to keep sanctions before Russia becomes a normal country, a country to which you can rely to follow the rules, very simple rules. Otherwise, it will repeat itself every two, three years down the road.