The Russian elite indicated which way to go in order to keep their assets in the future. In the future - this is when the head of the country will not be Vladimir Putin or his follower. In the fact that it will ever happen, the West is sure. Preparing for such changes is already being proposed. In particular, a political scientist from Germany, an associate professor of the Ukrainian Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a member of the Valdai Discussion Club, Andreas Umland, presented a whole scenario, which describes how to act. For example, Russian entrepreneurs are encouraged to press on politicians and force them to leave Syria, forget about Donbass. In return, the oligarchs are guaranteed security of accounts and property in the West. Simple Russians are promised a visa-free regime with the EU, if they turn a coup like Kiev. And in general, Russia is offered the present role of Ukraine. And quite seriously this is referred to as the highest happiness, says Dmitry Zhuravlev, Director General of the Institute of Regional Problems. "Umland ... offers Russia to descend to the level of Ukraine, which annually begs the EU for additional quotas for its products," quotes the political scientist "Free Press". "Even if Ukraine received everything that was promised to her, this is not at all what Russia needs," Zhuravlev said.. He notes that Russia does not need sovereign Russia in any form. Therefore, the West is now changing its strategy. At first, they tried to intimidate the Russian elite there, to crush the ruble, but miscalculated: "For Russian business, no matter what political positions it stands for, it is very important to keep its assets inside Russia. Because outside Russia they do not earn money, but only postpone, "Zhuravlev recalls.. However, Umland understood this too. Therefore, he advises the West to act not with a whip, but with a carrot: podlizyvatsya, podmaslivat authority, and the money owns. In the meantime, I'm preparing to stick my teeth into Russia, which will soon be left alone in this harsh world. "Russia is too weak to form an independent pole in a multipolar world," Umland assures the audience. "Unlike the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West must be prepared in advance for a new collapse of the Russian regime, which after February 1917 and August 1991 will lead to the third pro-Western turn in Moscow," the German political scientist. "The West will act in its own interests," Zhuravlev. - And since we are a great country, we can not integrate into these interests. Umland offers us to be a lackey, but even this status will not be given to us. We can be either a player, an active part of the modern world, or we turn into a dish on the table. We do not have a third way, "insists the political scientist.