The symphony within the Kremlin walls has benefited for a while by a funny refrain, wrapped though in grey tinfoil of some so to say dramatic accents. The score of this refrain is the following: 1) After a long hospitalization, Boris Eltin returns to Kremlin. 2) Angered with his subjects who didn't fulfil his orders precisely, the tsar of all Russians banishes some high officials, or even the entire government. 3) Still upset and filled with his supreme authority, Boris Nikolaevici withdraws in a sanatorium, with a reprimand gesture of his index finger. 4) The end. The trick with the ill tsar's authoritative fury seemed to work for a while: "He's ill indeed, but look, everybody is shuddering in front of his eyes", say ordinary people and analysts at the same time, when the "Raging come-back" series was just in the beginning. The trouble is, whatever you may put it, this come-back cannot come back for ever. Therefore the alleged terrible come-backs of the master of Kremlin no longer impress anybody, and they rather look like a famous Russian cartoon, in which a small time wolf which has run out of strength, is content to repeat the same threat: "I'll teach you a lesson!". "I'll teach you a lesson!". Some must have imagined this scene yesterday when Boris Eltin, after a two week hospitalization, returned to Kremlin at lightning speed and sacked the head of the presidential administration, along with three of his deputies. And then, of course, Mr. Tsar went back to the sanatorium, satisfied with his new force demonstration: the tsar came back, the tsar punished, therefore the tsar still runs Russia. Who could believe in these stories any more? Most probably, the main character in this little dramatic picture, with doubtless tragic and comic tones. Two centuries ago, Europe had to solve a "sanitary" problem related to a "great patient" - the Ottoman Empire. Then, on the