After Putin confirmed the power from stress rising with the West, Putin this week had a series of moves to the ladder.

For many days, Russian forces concentrated near the Ukrainian border, raising concerns about a comprehensive battle in Europe.

"Putin used fears, suspense and military forces to affirm their power and influence. Putin looked at anxiety he could create at home and abroad as a tool

This tactic recalls the past as Putin's intelligence officer: causing the enemy to always speculate and anxiously, but they will control themselves when they need it.

Gleb Pavlovsky, Putin's leading former advisor, talking about recent stresses: "This is a performance. But the performance is important for our system."

Russian President Putin reads federal messages in Moskva on April 21.

This week, Putin's new "cold war" logic was clearly shown.

But Putin didn't do that in the speech on April 21.

On April 22, Russia's defense minister announced a part of the border with Ukraine - walks to be welcomed by the Ukraine President.

"Whether Russia tries to express himself like stones, not listening, do not care about external opinions, in fact, they still react with the pressure from inside and outside", a leading assistant of Navalny

In the article of Medvedev above, he compared the current situation with the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the US and the Soviet Union reached the edge of the nuclear war.

A risk in Putin's approach is that if he keeps applying it, he will need to be fierce to achieve the desired effect.

In Kiev, some Western officials and diplomats believe that Putin consolidates force is an expensive, risky effort to manage the Ukrainian government, when they have a more rigid perspective with Russia in those

"He thinks he needs to sit at the table with Americans and give an agreement on the division of influential areas," said Oleksiy Danilov, the National Security Advisor of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensy, said.

By the middle of this week, when Putin went to send the message about his "red line", Ukraine feared and prepared for the possibility of a comprehensive war.

"We have heard words from American copay, expressing their willingness to dialogue on the two-party issues of interest. But unfortunately, the American claims do not match specific actions",

However, Putin's comb is likely to find the way to go down to the stairs smoothly.

"It's worrisome that he takes care of not being weak," said Kadri Liik, the policy house at the European Foreign Assembly in Berlin, said.

In the country, Putin's thinnerness in the way of treating Navalny and handling demonstrations may not last long.

On April 23, the Russian Ministry of Justice announced one of the most popular Russian news sites, Meduza, which was "foreign mission".

However, both relatiles with Russian ruling elite sometimes cannot identify tactics in the moves of the Kremlin.

Remchukov said that these groups are promoting confrontation policies that Putin sometimes has to restrain.