While the West complains of Russian aggression and announces a new Cold War, the approval rating of the Russian President soars to more than 80%. He is their Superman, defending the nation and the ‘near abroad’. Is there anything the Russian President cannot do? Can he deal with Russia’s greatest problem, the fact that it is too cold? And what happens when a Norwegian protest ship threatens to steal the Russian flag from the seabed at the North Pole? Narrated by his aide and confidante, Aleksey Nikolayevich Charkov, Observations on the Government of the Russian State tells the inside story of the Russian leader’s court…