Over the last month, Putin has moved from fright about Trump's victory to self -confidence and arrogance, the journalist Vadim Denysenko replies. The Kremlin dictator believed that the US president was a slack, so he decided to go on a counter -offensive that we are now seeing . . . Putin considers Trump as a weak after Trump's victory, Putin was clearly lost. The month has passed - and we see striking changes in the Kremlin's behavior.