" The mood at the ‘Putin Party’ is a mix of feudal poses and arch, postmodern irony: the sucking-up to the master completely genuine, but as we’re all liberated twenty-first-century people who enjoy Coen Brothers films, we’ll do our sucking up with an ironic grin while acknowledging that if we were ever to cross him we would quite quickly be dead. So, "

― Peter Pomerantsev , Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia