nope not bad at all, i mean yes your economy got better, but thats only because YEltsin fucked the shit out if. before other countries were scared of you because of your military, now the only reason they are scared is because you will stop the gas supply.
the only reasons why your economy did get better is because it couldnt get much worse after YEltsin, and because you have so much fuckign oil and gas and shit. if the prices woudl be as low as they used to be putin would not have fixed shit. and the negative aspects greatly outweight the [one] positive.
no freedom of speach, yes okay you have that one newspaper that disses putin but no one reads that shit. all your reporters "commit suicide" by shooting them self in the back...or poisen them self by plutioniam..very logical..plus the huge gap between poor and rich..the gap was less during the tsar times...the little villages a bit further away from civilization [moscow and petersburg] are such shitholes they dont even have internet or constant electricity supply..the list could go on and on..but yea your economy got better...
go watch ORT and enjoy your porpoganda idiots..