Certainly they do.
The New York Times covered up for Stalin (a Georgian) and his murder of millions of Ukrainians between 1928 and 1935.
Putin was born in 1952, and there is no Russian in the government of the Russian Federation now, that was in the Soviet Russian government in 1935.
How again is this historic genocide Putin's fault, and why haven't Ukrainians taken down the New York Times organization that still exists and was in conspiracy?
I believe that Putin has a vision of restoring Soviet greatness, albeit with some crony capitalism mixed in.
http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/04/25/2031_type70029type82912_87086.shtml
From the Kremlin:
“Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself.”-Vladimir Putin