Yes, Putin won't simply relinquish power. That's what's frightening. I'm sure he won't be elected for a fourth term. But he also won't be able to quietly step down – he'll be arrested. There's information that he's deliberately provoking protest movements so that a civil war can begin, and he can establish a military regime and a personal dictatorship. At first glance, it sounds like nonsense, but it makes you think, because he really has no other way out.
And this already deserves the "facepalm" image. A dictatorship has already been established in its own way, and a civil war would be beneficial to neither him nor those "at the top."