interests. Their practical deeds in fact declare In capital we trust". Trenin described Russia's elite involved in the process of policy-making as people who largely owned the country. Most of them were not public politicians, but the majority were bureaucratic capitalists. According to Trenin, "having survived in a ruthless domestic business and political environment, Russian leaders are well adjusted to rough competition and will take that mindset to the world stage". However, Trenin called Russian-Western relations, from Moscow's perspective, "competitive, but not antagonistic". He said that "Russia does not crave world domination, and its leaders do not dream of restoring the Soviet Union. They plan to rebuild Russia as a great power with a global reach, organized as a supercorporation". According to Trenin, Russians "no longer recognize U.S. or European moral authority". He said that "from the Russian perspective, there is no absolute freedom anywhere in the world, no perfect democracy, and no government that does not lie to its people. In essence, all are equal by virtue of sharing the same imperfections. Some are more powerful than others, however, and that is what really counts". In the opinion of Ekaterina Schulmann, Russian political scientist, Putin's Russia is a country of reverse cargo cult. Cargo cult is a belief that a manufacturing straw-manure airplanes will attract real airplanes made of aluminium carrying many useful goods whereas reverso cargo cult is a belief that there are no real airplanes made of aluminium anywhere and the difference between more successful and less successful nations lies in the possibility or impossibility to hide the fact that airplanes made of straw and manure. In political aspect, reverse cargo cult means that Russian political elite realizes that Russia doesn't have real democracy, free and transparent elections, independent court, etc. having imitations of these institutions only, but Russian politicians think there is the same situation in other countries and Western countries just succeeded in "promoting themselves"; and it is noteworthy that Putin's elite believes that Russia's inability to "promote itself" is the proof of Russia's "spirituality, ethical purity and moral integrity", in contrast to "cynical, corrupt and deceitful" West. Russian nationalism Some authors, such as Michael Hirsh, have described Putin as a "messianic" Russian nationalist and Eurasianist. Rehabilitation of the Tsarist Imperial Russia It is claimed that Putin models himself on the Tsar Peter the Great, whose reign is reminiscent of a Russian imperial greatness which