Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBS CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. To London to interpret Moscow.

Headlines in the Telegraph. Putin wants Ukraine buffer zone to protect Russia from missile attacks and

flash mob protests overshadow Putin's victory in sham election and Moscow flights

grounded by wave of Ukrainian drone strikes that's on

Crimea and Putin strolls to victory but his opponents humiliate and out fox him.

I hesitate I welcome Katrina Vandenhovel, the editorial director and the publisher of

The Nation magazine and a columnist of the Washington Post who has much experience

traveling to and from Moscow and other parts of Russia over the years.

This is the election of Vladimir Putin for his fifth term, which I believe is going to rival

when it finishes in 2030,

of Joseph Stalin's time,

Jugashvili's time,

as the leader as the strongman

of the Soviet state, now the Russian state.

Katrina what are your thoughts about a fifth term for Putin?

Is he anxious about a successor?

Is he a man who is propelled by some inspiration? Why does he want a fifth term?

He's 71 years old and at this moment the question is does he have a successor or is he going to live out the whole of his life as as the president good evening to you

Good evening John I remember being in Moscow December 1999 into January 2000.

Millions of Russians watched on their screen,

their TV screen, the New Year's Eve celebration,

which is a tradition of ritual and Boris Yeltsin was embalmed I mean a living in bald man he couldn't really speak it was it was frightening if you cared about nuclear security. And Putin was brought up as the successor. As many

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