Why do ask? 1 reason is because the new democratic Russia has copied the way we were and obliged us for the last 25 years.
With the promotion of religion, family, straight sex, flat tax ect, they were going in a better direction than us.
Ask yourself a hard question. Who would make a better world president, Obama or Putin ?
I don't want a world president. I much prefer the republic our Founding Fathers gave us.
Stop reading these crappy Russian financed “news outlets”. In 1999-2008 their economy was growing due to unusually high prices of natural resources, once that's over they are collapsing. They hardly export anything else. There's been totally no progress in building up any real economy and their “religion” is ROC - KGB “church”, basically government's department of religion.