(CNN) In his best-seller "The Art of the Deal," Donald Trump makes an important point: Never show your negotiating partner that you are desperate. Putin may indeed react to the protests by chucking his hapless Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev , to the wolves. Medvedev's alleged grotesquely extravagant property empire (private ski slope, helicopter pads and even a duck house) was the subject of a scorching documentary by the opposition leader Alexey Navalny . It is not Putin who is desperate for a deal but Trump. And the Kremlin leader knows that.

Source: CNN March 28, 2017 14:37 UTC