for your review.
Russians prefer a centrally-run oligarchy with a strongman at the top, I guess. Different cultures, different ways of governing. As long as Russians are free to leave, and Putin doesn’t try strongarming Ukraine or the Baltics, let them have their KGB “czar”.
The return of the Romanovs would be the ideal fix, but, oh, no, we have to have “democracy”, don’t you know.