So - do you really think, that it's OK when some government closes any media just because they don't want to praise its policy? And you call such an action cosnservative?
I hope you don't.
Just because they are rebuilding their country does not mean they should be, or want to be, a carbon copy of us.
Here are some Putin quotes.
"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."
"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
"Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism."
"Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots."
When I spent time in Russia in the mid-to-late 90's I was deeply envious of the many freedoms they had that we have not seen here in this country in a long time. Americans would be better off spending time worrying about what we have already lost.