So no one but Yeltsin and Berezovsky was surprised when Putin, their supposed marionette, began pulling the strings.

And here are some of my favorites. This is the little trap marionette that was submitted to me. Here we are, very cool.

And 20 years later, miraculously, we collaborated with a company from Mali, the Sogolon Marionette Troupe of Bamako, where we made a piece about a tall giraffe.

Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.