In the new issue
Speaking about the beginning of the invasion in the early morning of February 24, the Russian president held himself as the absolute ruler on whom everything depends. However, that pose quickly and noticeably began to unravel along with the dissolution of the original "special military operation" plan. Self-confidence noticeably returned to Putin in mid-summer, when the Russian army recorded successes on the Luhansk battlefield, but the Ukrainian counteroffensive around Kharkiv brought a new low: at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand, he was forced to express understanding for the objections of China and India, but and exposed to the humiliation of smaller members of that organization