Independent Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has no financial, human, diplomatic, and even military resources to act in a Soviet-style, forceful manner.
The nomination of Ksenia Sobchak for the post of the Russian president actually provides a solution to Vladimir Putin's several problems, journalist Semen Novoprudsky wrote in the Novoe Vremya weekly.
Russian military journalist Arkady Babchenko has commented on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wa ready to start a major war against Ukraine.