After Vladimir Putin's re-election to the fourth, the open question arises: how will the Kremlin's policy change regarding the conflict in the Donbas? About when the president of Russia can decide to finish with the war and at what here the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK, the "Apostrophe" was told by the coordinator of the group "Information Resistance" Dmitry Tymchuk.

Unfortunately, we still do not understand where is the trait beyond which Putin will consider unacceptable those reputation and economic losses that Russia bears because of the aggression in the Donbass.

We understand that in the near future Russians will be offered even tighter belt tightening. Today, Putin has carte blanche for the foreseeable period of action. But we also understand that there is discontent with the sanctions in the nearest environment of Putin, this should at least alarm.

He understands that all the support shown by the population has a limit. And this is with all the zombies and herdness of this society, which is not going to abandon the image of the king.

In this situation, no matter how cynical it may sound, the scandal surrounding the case of Sergei Skripal plays into our hands. Now it's not just Ukraine pushing on Western countries to prolong and deepen sanctions against Russia - include more serious players, primarily Britain, which remains a European bison.

In this situation, the question of how long Putin will play his bloody games in the Donbass remains open.

I do not rule out that if we see an increase in sanctions against the Russian Federation and the expected drop in the standard of living, the deepening of the socioeconomic crisis, then Putin may already by autumn come to the idea that it is necessary to turn off this adventure.

Crimea, of course, he will not give up, but he can try to repulse existing sanctions and return reputational losses, at least in the direction of Donbass, and make life easier for himself.