EMOTIONAL WITHDRAWAL: HOW KREMLIN WILL MAKE UP FOR LACK OF NEW VICTORIES
Journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The
Year: 2016

(By Mikhail Komin. Slon.ru, May 12, 2016, https://slon.ru/posts/67921.
 Condensed text:) The Russian expert community, it seems, has
 already come to a consensus that the Kremlin is tired of playing at
 big wars and global standoffs, and is gradually returning to the
 bosom of domestic policy. This is evidenced not only by [Moscow’s]
 telling rollback of troops from Syria [see Current Digest,
 Vol. 68, No. 11, pp. 3 - 6] or its de facto lack of
 participation in the new wave of conflict in Nagor