Why did the president miss a unique historical chance to become the savior of the Fatherland and forever write his name in history? How did he turn from a great statesman into an ordinary official, whom a dime a dozen? What prevented him from abandoning the damned Yeltsin heritage and breaking the "liberal" stranglehold on the country's throat? Why did the era of great hopes turn into another disappointment? And is there a chance that, having been re-elected for a third term, he will return himself to his former one - that Putin, who will fulfill his historical destiny, becoming the collector of the new Eurasian Empire?"