Colonel of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO

Colonel of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Bezrukov: “Now Putin is the most experienced politician of all who play on the world stage; he has been there the longest. The next crisis will be a transitional, structural crisis. It will be like in the 30s during the Great Depression, when it fell and then did not rise for 20 years. That is, the generation will not restore this money; the next generation will restore the market in a different economy. We have not lost allies, key allies: China, India. We have not lost neutrals - such as the Arab world, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, they have not defected anywhere. This gives me the opportunity to say that most likely it won’t get much worse. Russia and China understand very well that they need to stand back to back for a while. They need each other, like a marriage of convenience. What will happen next is a big question.” Source: Russian Head