No CPS - in Russia parents can spank their children and let them stay home alone at the age *they* determine to be the right one - there is no government agency telling them how to parent and monitoring them as if they themselves were children. Home remodeling - between two trips to Moscow we had to put in a new furnace. It costs us thousands but what really made my day was the $400 we had to pay to the local county. For a fee of some kind. I asked the furnace installer what it was for, and he had no answer. It was *for* the fact that the local government wanted to get some money out of us. In Moscow the citizens remodeling their kvarteras had to pay nothing, nada to anyone, nor did they have to get anyone's signature or inspection on their work. School - in Russia parents who choose to homeschool simply do it. No state agency tells them what they have to do each year to meet the state's standards.
Who needs free and open elections and freedom of the press when you have the freedom to build a twenty foot fence on your property line and you have the freedom not have your kids ever be taught a damn thing at home. Right?
In the U.S. you have a Constitution that enumerates unalienable rights and you have a Constitution that lays out democratic and republican procedures that best protect the unalienable right so enumerated.
In Russia you have a Constitution that sort of enumerates unalienable rights and then you have the tyrant dictator who decides when you get to exercise your unalienable rights.
Freedom is more than a laundry list things that you are free to do, issued by a tyrant.
As I said before, Putin and his defenders don't understand what freedom really is.