I cannot say that is bad for Russia, and Russia is making slow improvements in economy and production, while starting from an extremely weak position.
As a counterpoint, out West, Obama is acting like a Socialist, if you include the EPA, Agriculture, Education, Endangered Species and Obamacare, he is acting like an outright Communist, and doing the worst job in history as President of the US damaging the economy immensely, while starting from the strongest economy the world has ever known.
Putin is moving Russia back towards Communist totalitarianism. Russia is less free and less capitalist since Putin came to power. Furthermore, he is bringing Communism back to former Soviet states by undermining their sovereignty and independence. Putin is a Neo-Soviet revanchist. If Obama is Marx then Putin is Lenin. Obama is a ivory tower Harvard educated democratic socialist dilettante but Putin is a bloodthirsty mass-murdering Chekist thug.
In 1999 as he took office, a few families could afford a chicken dinner at least once a week there. A 19-th century mansion in a suburb of Moscow was priced at $20,000, a huge truck factory in Urals was priced at $100,000. There were a civil war in the South of the country and gang wars in cities claiming dozens of lives daily.
Today they have an average annual income closer to Alabama than Mexico, Russian car market is one of the largest in Europe with average price about $30,000 per unit and it is probably impossible to buy a home under $100,000 near any major population center. There is no civil war and you can safely walk most downtowns at night.
If you were an average Russian, what may be your problem with your president? “Free Pussy Riot!” and gay rights aren’t that much an issue for people who has survived through 1990s in Russia.