How do you know it? Do you have any evidence of Putin's intentions? What is the proof that he is not a patriot and that his reforms are not similiar to the de Gaulle's creation of the Fifth Republic?
Just because the mass media who are buddies with Soros and Khodorkovsky want you to think so? Or maybe pro-Chechen Rainbow Revolutionaries want you to think so?
One of my Russian teachers back in the 1980s told me that Russian political history is a pendulum that swings back and forth between oppression and freedom. If the pendulum swings too far in one direction or another, the whole system would collapse.
I thought that had actually occurred, when Gorbachev and the Soviet Union went down. It's interesting to watch how Putin started the pendulum again very gradually, almost imperceptibly. Now that it's gaining momentum again, Russians are reacting with either resignation or alarm.