Something to keep in mind when all crimes are laid at Putin's doorstep. In an ultimate sense, as president, the buck stops there, but he is not an all powerful dictator, and the system he oversees appears to be overly decentralized with many actors engaged in activities he either can't prevent or won't condemn post facto. He may not fully control the security apparatus itself (as U.S. presidents also have found out). Western style bourgeois democracy seems as ill fitted to the Russian socio-political culture as was the philosophy of Karl Marx when it was applied in Russia and mutated into a new form suited to a backward pre-industrial state (and was used to modernize it) but was qualitatively different from anything Marx, Engels, or for that matter Lenin, would have conceived. A problem that still plagues the international Communist movement today as well as Russian political life. [No Russian Luther or Reformation of the backward Christianity inherited from Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire after its fall in 1453.]
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