A French painter Shemyakin is, by his own admission, a friend of FSB, Putin, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, etc., as well as a patriot of Russia, but wisely chose to live in the West, gave an interview to the Russian Service of BBC News, in which he was forced to accept the inevitability of imminent death of this country. Shemyakin noted in particular:
"Today Russia is sitting on a powder keg, because you cannot go on this lawlessness anymore. Russian is not stupid. He's just very patient, but do not take patience for stupidity.
You think that the out-of-the-way place, where army officers live, is still in the barracks, and watching on TV as how Abramovich having fun on his yacht, you think it will last long? (at least from this side, it will last forever, because "the Russian officers" ...