Putin was selected with 70 percent vote majority at second time in 2003. Now he's going to leave his position to his demise. Putin doesn't need some internal consumption because in Russia there is no even defiance for Putin's United Russia party :)
Putin is rebuilt the country also gave people hope who lives there. He finished to Chechenian war and now he works on developing to army. Let me give you an example, Russia made 25 billion dolar credit dept to Usa (world bank) after CCCP broke up at Boris Yeltsin (RIP) time to rebuilt the country. Even people couldn't find a bread to eat and there was huge lines to get a single bread, everybody had ration coupon. Before Yeltsin leaves his duty, he announced to public that Putin must selected at next elections and people listent him. Usa made a payment schedule for dept to Russia like 10-12 years and Putin paid all this dept in 4 years. :) The thing is he was very lucky because of petrol par of exchange price was started to increase when he started to duty.
If you read his life, you can see that he's a real patriotic. If you go to Russia then you can understand who's the Putin.