Development on the Z-curve

NYTimes Today's Cartoons.

These days it is not a easy job  to be a superhero-Russian president.

Most, however, ...
also I'm not sure,
I wonder myself how Russia is heading back towards to time of Cossacks.
Russia has done it again for a change: It has lost the vision, it means nation's own large image for their own future - and that's in decline and it goes in corruption.