Marat Gelman about Putin on his Facebook:
'It turns out that a large part of my friends, when I say that Putin is inadequate, believe that I am criticizing him and not stating a medical fact. So let's take a look:
- A man releases his enemy from prison, allows fair elections, amnesties political prisoners - does everything so we think - a new era begins in Russia - and then bam and within a week he blows it all.
- A man spends billions of dollars and a lot of his own time to host the Olympics. At the opening, he shows the world - an enlightened, European Russia - and then bam and within a week he blows it all.
- A man builds a Customs Union. He makes a personal bet on uniting countries around Russia. The CU is his main project, generations should remember him in connection with it, and then bam and within a week he blows it all.
- A man searches for spiritual bonds. He finds them somewhere in the Orthodox world, in the Slavic brotherhood - and then bam and within a week he blows it all.
- A man builds relationships with the world, G8, a pipeline to Europe, a stabilization fund in dollars, international agreements, Timchenko in Finland, Abramovich in England - and then bam and within a week he blows it all. So where is the criticism? In my opinion, it's purely a diagnosis.'