.. will it crumble.
Whether Putin likes it or not, he must have realized his destiny and only choice; that Russia will need a dictator to stay in it's huge gargantuan form.
Just like former Iraq and former Yugoslavia. And when the dictator leaves, the country falls. It will fall and fall until it cannot be shattered any more.
Only when Russia is called "former Russia" will there be freedom in (former) Russia!
But until then people will have to live in a land of confusion.
Such is the dire destiny of this tormented land!
RIP
scandinavian