[Cronos]

It was modernizing before him. His policies killed that.

[MinorityRepublican]

Russia was in bad shape 23 years ago. They didn’t even control Chechnya at the time. I think there’s a chance Russia may have split up into several countries. And we may see that in Russia after Putin.

[nickfrost1]

Yeah yeah it was a "modernization" right))). Especially in 1990th when USA was a friend of Russia.