British newspapers: Putin defies West

Articles focused on some of the British press on Friday to "challenge" the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the West and the "role" in fueling the Ukrainian crisis, and that the Russians are the ones who pay the price for his defiance In contrast, his role in ending the crisis in Syria.
Guardian newspaper article has been considered response Western leaders to Putin's policy since the annexation of Russia the Crimea bad political significance of the absence of a clear strategy to resolve the growing crisis in the center of Europe, and they are thus leaving Putin goes on in his scheme to control the other places in Ukraine and destabilize the fledgling democracy there and the formation of weak states on its borders.
"Ordinary Russians began to feel the pinch of Western sanctions on their daily lives, which is expected to cost the country forty billion dollars a year, and the collapse in oil prices will reduce government revenue by about another hundred billion"
The paper said the need to come Ukrainian crisis solutions diplomatic move and not a military one, but there must be a deterrent as well as diplomacy.
In this context, the Times wrote that the Russians are paying a heavy price as a result of confrontation with the West, Putin, where he is likely to escalate Russia's economic crisis to pose an existential threat to the leadership of President Putin, in two years, according to leading economists in it.
The newspaper pointed out that ordinary Russians -alven supported the annexation of Qurm- Putin began to feel the pinch of Western economic sanctions on their daily lives, which is expected to cost the country forty billion dollars a year, and the collapse of world oil prices will reduce government revenue by about another hundred billion net inflation of more than 8%.
With regard to the affairs of the Middle East, the Daily Telegraph newspaper wrote that Russia's strong alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime was allowed to organize the Islamic state to flourish, and that Putin -aly though his hand was so key to peace in Syria.
She suggested the newspaper to a contradiction in Russian foreign policy, which claims great appreciation for stability in the region, and said that Putin's failure to recognize that the lion is the biggest enemy of stability in the Middle East, and that if he is thinking and make sure compliance Assad for the efforts of new diplomacy to settle the civil war in Syria, the State regulation will suffer and then one of the deadliest strikes against him.