Another garbage article that builds/propagates narratives, has zero nuance (dumbs everything down to the nomenklatura, and doesn't even mention the lineage inte

Another garbage article that builds/propagates narratives, has zero nuance (dumbs everything down to the nomenklatura, and doesn't even mention the lineage interruption or FSB vs military vs civil institutions power struggle of 90's), and won't lead to any HN-worthy discussion beyond feeding the confirmation bias of local folks. Modern democracy is not a thing that either exists or doesn't. It's a loose bunch of basic practices and properties most meet to the certain extent: rule of law, checks and balances, representation, transparency, pluralism, market-based economy, and so on. Most of those existed in the post-Soviet Russia for a while to a certain extent. We can argue endlessly about that extent, but they undoubtedly took a while to dismantle, otherwise the war and runaway fascism could have happened in 1993 or in late 90's. In reality, it only happened after the 2020 constitution coup.