Only 2003, I’ll take it.
So now you’re the purveyor of truth the nation of Russia is incapable due to character flaws to have a representative democracy?
Yes, you speak the truth! LOL!
Our Founding Fathers paved a road for a nation of farmers to follow and emulate. As Franklin said to the question, “What have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”
Russia has not known anything but the misery from tens of millions slaughtered by communism followed by a greedy oligarchy.
How would Russia know what democratic institutions it could manage being that not a single living person has experienced it?
Sad, this dismissal.