“It was smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines and walked along them,” says one children’s song. This happened with Operation Maltese Cross, which was developed by the St. Andrew's Brotherhood to unite and prepare two Russias - in two parallel realities - for confrontation with any enemy. But neither Lyakhov nor his associates yet sense the “peculiarities of the process” and do not foresee possible pitfalls in the future. Unlike Dmitry Vorontsov, one of the founders of the Brotherhood, who until recently preferred to remain “above the fray”, providing reliable rear support for his “colleagues”. However, apparently, the time has come for him to move to the forefront and take control of the operation into his own hands. Slowly, but prudently and adamantly.