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[fernando . negro]

As long as Putin is in power, at least, Russia will not become Western-like,  
in terms of a great loss of civil rights and an immense Big Brother  
surveillance. Putin is no "champion" of Democracy, yes. But he's also not the  
"devil" that the Western media portraits of him. Putin is hated by Western  
interests because, unlike Gorbachev, he doesn't open Russia's door to Western  
meddling and control, and because, unlike Yeltsin, he doesn't let the West  
plunder and destroy his country. And that's why the Western media always  
portraits such a bad image of him. The tighter control that he's been  
building in his country is, in good part, a response to Western  
destabilization attempts of Russia through Western-backed terrorist groups,  
fake political movements and fake NGOs, who ultimately want to destroy  
Russia, mostly in the same way as the countries in the West are already being  
destroyed, and which he has righteously being cracking down on. So, if your  
goal in Russia is not to fight for Western interests and merely destabilize  
the country, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. And, in my case,  
being abroad, I know that, unlike the US/UK/EU, Russia doesn't impose its  
will on my country, nor will I ever have to worry about Russian troops  
occupying my country, in my lifetime, and Russian KGB/FSB agents attempting  
to sabotage my legitimate political activism. To the contrary, a big help to  
that same "pro-Freedom" political activism, in my Western country, has come  
from former KGB/FSB agents and Russian media organizations.