Putin's Passivity in the Kremlin

David Rothkopf: It's a bizarre situation. You have these taunts from essentially an oligarch who's formed his own militia. As Pragosian rents and taunts, the leader stays in the Kremlin aloof and silent. Is that a deliberate strategy by Putin to stay above it all? We simply don't know. But the conversations I'm having with Russia analysts go to this mystery of Putin's passivity"