Always less liberal democracy in west to Russia

Totalitarian in western democracies & partners:

• Trump fires as angry chief employees
• Reduce state employees of opposition
• Reduce old but still active judges of opposition
• Close fake printmedia, like CumHürriet (Erdogan),
  or critizing print media like Orban.
• Propagate smoking weed or drinking 3 beers as more criminal,
  then crucial violence against civilist.

Totalitarian in Russia:

• Kill a highly deserving and respected army general Alexander Iwanowitsch Lebed with a ready to go from FSB, crash his helicopter because he is running as an opposition politician and is popular with the people.
  Maybe his helicopter crashed just like that by ransomware.
• Change the constitution, so that Putin can become president as many times as he wants, but not 3 periods continously.
• If chess world champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov demonstrates with a few old intellectuals against that constitutional change, then throw him in jail for three weeks on suspicion of terrorism.
• Use dioxin against the new Ukrainian president during the first orange revolution. if Ukraine wants to turn more to Europe.
• Invade Crimea if Ukraine wants another time to be nearer to EU and hold a quick refverendum vote. while many Russian soldiers in civilian clothes cross the border into Crimea and keep watch.
• Expropriate oligarchs, if they want to form left-liberal parties against Putin and put them in prison.
• Kill agents with plutonium, that want to flee to the west.
• Support Assad and Muammar al-Gaddafi in the Arab Spring by advising them to fake soldiers as even more radical ISIS jihadists. (ISIS never fighted Assad or Hezbollah or Revolutionary guards, only Kurds and FSA). Give your partners  air support and carry out brutal ground-to-air attacks.
• After your German supporters (only some not all former SED and few far right) push Bibi and Erdogan out of the western circle, threaten them, but say you mean well. Have the German supporters attempt a coup against Erdogan after he shoots down a MIG or even a stealth SU-57 in Turkish airspace.
• Murder Kazakh ambassador Rakhat Aliyev in prison in Vienna because he disloyally wanted more support from the West.
• Make Europe 99,7% gas dependent on Russia.
• Transfer frozen Gazprom Assets from the City of London to the moscow stock exchange.
• Have a local female politician threaten the former tourism djinn and current Bonesman Skeleton, telling him to be careful not to lose his two sexy legs, because exiled russian businessman like him.

bold ... 100% sure facts.

italics ... conspiracy theory

normal font ... something between italics and bold

Conclusio:

The idea from Putin as strong man, who takes, what ever he wants efficient persistent, stubborn brutal without remorse and the disgust with democratic political correctness and human rights unfortunately make Putin's image impersonate mainly in the West and turn  some (not all) honest republicans into reptilian shotgun outlaws. 

The idea of left-liberal humanity, that marginalized groups and people with disabilities should receive support at education and employment has largely disappeared.

The interpretation of more right liberal human rights, that a white woman should receive the same amount for the same work and performance as a black man or an asian man, regardless of race, age, religion, or sexual orientation, also seems to have disappeared.

Epilog:

Do you believe, that chief of CIA & NSA should become president in the US?

On the other side, China doen't seem to play that radical power play as Russia. 

For example the push a soft sunni islam inside chinese or outside china turk neighbours and would be ready to give XinJang and Tibet autonomous status inside China. (better than currently).

China is clever and mighty, but seems to play more with western rules than Russia.

Also India is a super-power and at the east side of Russia (west side of China).
I have seen at least zero Putin mania.

I don't say, that China is a western democracy, but chinese companies are loyal to US, 

they always build a PC with a lot of local hardware maybe realtek belongs now to china, 

but always with an Intel CPU inside, because they like to pay IP-Claims in case of lawful contracts with the US and because it's cheaper.

If you say to Russia, that Russia can still have 75% of Europe an gas market,
Putin says "NJET 100%" and plays so long power games, even help warlords, 

that we can buy then 0 arabian or azerbaijan oil and gas 

With every other country even china, india, muslim states its possible to say
"I want even have other business partners, but you are important".

I know, Putin former KGB now FSB plays only that power game to make Russia strong and important again and he's in power since decades, while other presidents come and go. But for many other, it's all other then great. Europeans in particular don't like it when they're not allowed to buy any Arab oil, even though many Arab states are happy to buy Airbus. For me it's better to be great in business and innovation nation too, rather to play a permanently CIA power games.

I have no fear, there will be a time sooner or later, when Putin will be too old - too tired and then everything will nornalize. Exiled russian seem to want more to be like republican businessmen, rather then a wild FSB hard power player.