To restore Russia's status as a world leader, the Kremlin needs to take two steps: with apologies to return Crimea to Ukraine and move to the West in the fight against the ruling regime in Syria.

This opinion was expressed to the "Observer" by the military analyst Alexei Arestovich.

Answering the question of what the Russian government should do and President Putin himself personally, to return the country to the position of world leader, he said: "There are two options: we must give Crimea to Ukraine, to recognize this as a terrible mistake, to pay compensation. And to strengthen the Western coalition in the fight against IGIL, with the Assad regime, that is, clearly move to the side of the West ".

In this context, Aristovich remarked: "They do not want this, because when she goes over to the West, it turns out that they are not like number three, but number thirty-three".

The analyst stated that today's Russian Federation "has nothing to compete" with the West. "Russia's total budget is less than one New York State budget, together with the city of New York. They have little effect on the world economically; The energy market of Europe is also very much diversified. Another tool - nuclear weapons - is not a serious argument. It is a serious argument only in the case of a huge war, but the war is often waged not by military means - economic, soft power and other. Here they are extremely weak ".

"It's hard to be serious about complexity. Therefore, they initiate military conflicts, "the analyst said..

In his opinion, Russia "has no other ways to manage the international situation".

"They are trying to return to the system of a multipolar world, when the four or five states are going to and solving all the issues, and all the others should be put under the visor and carry out. And the world does not work like this.

The West competes very hard among themselves. Russia has nothing to compete with. Therefore, Putin wants to create artificial conditions for competition through security issues, "explained Arestovich.

As the "Observer" wrote, earlier Alexei Arestovich suggested that the Russian president will build his election campaign on anti-corruption discourse and focus on the image of the "collector of land".

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