Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America.

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.