I am not going to speak about a time machine and America but about Russia and its urgent need to return to the past in search of a tool to secure a better future.

It looks like the country — instead of further tolerating the excesses of authoritarian presidential power — should look back and borrow the centuries-old institution of genuine hereditary monarchy, shape its modern constitutional variety, and thus — paradoxically — lay foundations for a more advanced and effective democracy.

These days both the country's elite and the Russian people are still trying to overcome the embarrassment created by the shameless spectacle accompanying the discovery of cynical collusion within the "ruling tandem."