Nicknamed the "Eternal Putin", the Russian leader is condemned to immobility, but his model has followers all over the world and poses a threat to Europe as well. The influence of Putinian ideology has many resonances, from America to Europe, from Turkey to India and China. The fate of many other countries may depend on the future of Putin and his model. After having approved, on July 1, 2020, the changes to the constitutional charter that allow him to remain president until at least 2036, the Russian leader is now called the “eternal Putin” both by supporters and by increasingly active protesters. It is precisely this qualification, however, that marks its decline: Putin is no longer a real leader, but now an institution codified and immutable, an abstract entity of a Russia that wants to be reduced to the eternal repetition of itself. It is the time of Putinian stagnation, as in the time of Leonid Brežnev. The uncertainties of the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic, the protests in the regions of the Russian Far East and the revolts in Belarus of the other "eternal president" Aleksandr Lukashenko, cast a very worrying shadow on the destinies of Putinism. The population has been accustomed for centuries to submitting to the tsars and patriarchs, yet even among the Eastern Slavs a new civil consciousness is growing, in addition to the power struggles at the top and the enormous economic interests of oligarchs and corporations linked to the exploitation of precious natural resources for the entire planet