Today is a significant day. Shares of “the main national asset”, which used to be the most valuable company in Russia — the largest gas corporation in the world, which owns 17% of the world's gas reserves, are worth 15 times less today than in 2008. The price of Gasprom shares has fallen from $16 to $1.08.

That’s an astounding achievement of Putin and his gang of thugs.

Putin’s maniacal obsession with Ukraine and desire to become the emperor of Russian lands — all territories that the Russian empire ever controlled — brought Russia in political turmoil it hasn’t experienced since the times of the Cold War.

The Russian banking system is staring into the abyss, the ruble is in free fall, demographics in crisis, construction industry is contracting, chronic workforce shortages exacerbated by the outflow of labor migrants due to falling ruble — it all looks like a house of cards.

And of course, there is the war and the constant news of strikes at Russia — drones, missiles, sabotage, the incursion by the Ukrainian troops into Russia — and the non-stop inflow of wooden boxes with disfigured rotten bodies. No amount of “patriotism” can block the feeling of chilling horror, which occupies a gloomy corner in the mind and heart of every Russian citizen.

The Russian Federation is imploding.