The Economist has the latest in a spate of articles this week speculating that Prime Minister / President / President / Prime Minister / incumbent President Vladimir Putin’s time may be up, following his admissions at last week’s Valdai Club dinner that perhaps the current system of government leaves much to be desired in the way of freshness, vision, and innovation (to put it mildly).  The broad disapproval of the Valdai dinner attendees, which included Boris Nemtsov, prompted the opposition figure to comment, ‘I don’t see any gap between what I’m saying and what everyone else here is saying.  We’re all in the opposition now.’