[bertil]

I would actually be surprised: Putin has the redeeming quality of autocrats, he doesn’t complain about trivial things. He certainly instruments threats, made-up or otherwise, and he might occasionally get people excited over confusing displays of nationalism, like that foreign food strike last year, but the whole message around it was grave.

Saying that a freckled teenager in California can challenge his popularity by writing nonsense on the internet… it’s unbecoming.