Maybe I'm an asshole for saying this, but I kind of want Russia to be a world power again. It's not a communist country anymore and its main function is just being an asshole to everyone else, so it would be nice to just have someone besides the US, China, and the EU as world powers. The US is retarded, the EU is the gayest place on Earth, and China is fine outside of the government, so an asshole nation would break things up. Go Russia, be the Putin made Roman Empire you aspire to be.
There's so much he could do with something like that, it's amazing he doesn't. You don't even have to do news with it, you could just do variety type of stuff as long as you find the right people to staff it. Just look at something like Bright Sun Films or Retail Archeology who just explore abandoned places with high production, or just walk around semi abandoned malls with a phone camera.
You know, stuff like this