It is quite a leap by Melissa Charbonneau to analyze Putin's motives as to be the next Czar of Russia. Putin's political heritage as former head of the defunct Soviet Union's KGB is Communism and totalitarianism. I am fairly certain Putin would be disgusted at the thought of a monarchical Czar being re-established. The Czar represented everything that Marxist-Leninism hated passionately.
On the other hand Melissa Charbonneau has hit the nail on the head that Putin may wish to establish a transformed Stalinist Russian State. Putin says he supports Democracy; however he supports Democracy under a Russian heritage rather a Western idealism. This is an indication of some kind of combination of Russian autocracy (Czarist and Communist) with some kind of transformed privilege for the citizens of the state. Such a transformed State would be more reminiscent of 19th Century Prussia or Fascist Italy.
There is one certainty; Putin enjoys huge popular support among his Russian citizenry. There is a revised political/constitutional structure in place to perpetuate Putin's reign and rule. Russian people support Putin's vision of a Russian democracy that places security above all other institutions.
Russia is definitely emerging as something less than the West had hoped.
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