Putin. The foreman on the galleys

A special correspondent of the Kommersant Publishing House Andrei Kolesnikov has been watching Vladimir Putin for 17 years. He looks, asks, thinks, looks again, writes, writes, dictates, passes ... Only Andrei Kolesnikov managed to come to Putin so close and staying close for so long. Perhaps because he simply honestly did his job - and so good that journalism in his performance has already become literature. It allows him to show this Vladimir Putin, who did not manage to hide from millions of interested observers by the picket fence of the diverse rituals, of which his position consists of. The journalist is always separated from such a hero with a wall - a wall of status, a protocol, regulations, and simply a Kremlin wall, or a "wall", as those who work for it call it