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The world has come to a tipping point. As the bombs rain down on Ukraine, no one knows how far Vladimir Putin is ready to go, or if his military offensive will stop at the borders of his western neighbor. For twenty years, the master of the Kremlin has shaped his dream of grandeur. And the West is only realizing now that it will go through with its deadly project. But who really is Vladimir Putin? Who are those around him? What is his psychological state at a time when speculation is rife about his paranoid side? “We were wrong about Russia”, recognizes in our pages the former secretary general of the Quai d’Orsay, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. L’Express investigated to try to dissect the drift of a solitary and secret dictator.