I don't think it's the same.==
For you it is same if you find this article interesting..
As I said this article invoke vibes of your mind or soul.
For example this passage: "..What is most disturbing about todays Russia is not Vladimir Putin per se, but the fact that Putin represents the mindset of a great many Russians. It helps to know that unlike Peter the Great, Lenin or Stalin, Vladimir Putin has actually been elected to presidency by the majority of the Russian people. .."
"..Unlike every other European colonial power that has apologized for the wrongdoings of the past, Russia to this day has not renounced imperialism. Russia, to be sure, remains an empire. Besides its genocidal oppression against Chechens, Russia has imposed a direct presidential rule over the Tatars, Bashkurts, and tens of other nationalities against their wishes. .."
You say that you anti-Putin but mostly you critisize Russia an donly Russia. Don't disgise yourself.
This article is full of stamps and stereotypes of pure russophobia and hence beneath comtempt. Probably author ancestry of being non-russian "oppressed" in his Kyrgizia (his name tells that) invokes on him "genetic memory" of his "flogged" ass:)).