We have another picture here. Putin is not dictator as Hitler or Saddam Hussein. He just does what most people (not all of them smart) in Russia expect from him. We say that collapse of USSR is a catastrophe not because empire fell apart. It was "catastrophe" because we had the contry where all worked fine (culture, law, technology, aducation ect.) and than it suddenly dissapered complettely and turned to just crowd of criminals and stupid savages on the ruins of USSR. And the country was no longer able to stand up. Democracy did not work and the attempt to restore the authoritarianism did not work either. Nothing works anymore and no one understands why. Yesterday we were a people who can do everything, today we are a people who can not do anything.