Next step: Polygamy. Russia has a surplus of woman compared to males because of their long tradition of meatgrinding them in the conflicts of the leader. Because of that, for many russian woman it is not easy to have a native russian life with a native russian man to create a native russian family. This leads to woman accepting domestic abuse as they are glad to not go abroad to find a man. Still, many russian woman in search for a partner to marry, are going abroad. There are Marriage-Mills in china, japan and korea that loath for young russian (western looking) woman, desperate enough to marry a foreigner to fullfill their wish to have children and a family life. So the next step for Putin might be to tell russian woman that they should share the few man he did not crippled in the meat grinder for a polygamist relationship. And the current Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will tell them "this is gods will" like the turncoat he is.