Psychiatry recognizes a condition known as “moral idiocy.” Every time he opens his mouth in public, Putin confirms this diagnosis for himself. Do you want to know what life will be like in Russia over the next 8 or maybe 14 years? Go to the B. Pokrovsky theater to see Alfred Schnitke’s opera “Life with an idiot.” Geniuses are able to tell the future without even realizing it.

Andrei Piontkovsky, The Russia Journal, 2000 http://russiajournal.com/node/2857