The year is 2014, and Vladimir Putin enjoys great popularity among the Russian population.
As great that two thirds of the population want to see him as the President of Russia beyond the year of 2018th.
But it remains to be seen whether Putin managed to hold its own internationally in his effort to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
Simultaneously behind the events in Ukraine is intensified a process that will lead to a paradigm shift in the world order where the US loses its dominant power in world politics.