>> not soviet playbook, the putin playbook. what he's hoping for, and what he's experiencing in reality and masha has written so brilliantly about it this week, that a couple hundred thousand people of some of the best and the brightest have fled moscow to new lives because of their fear of being arrested and their ordinary lives being eradicated or being thrown in prison. computer programmers, journalists, all kinds of people. this tends to be urban, middle-class people in moscow and other cities in an enormous country. but to see that kind of flood indicates some level, at least you get some indication of the fear and the sense that this is not an episode but rather a really transformative event, obviously for the worst.