Which just about sums up the level of development to which Russia’s democracy has evolved. After all, it is still very young – given that the Communist Party is out of power only 1992.

That’s only 20 years since a select group of oligarchs saw the window-on-wealth open and dived through it in a frenzy, thus pirating Russia’s mineral and industrial wealth.

We are beginning to see signs of a fledgling opposition party, but that party is still far too nascent to have any real power. Besides, there is a psychological problem.

Meaning that 3/4 generations of Russians have only known monolithic communism. This younger one, however, much like the Arab Spring, has not accepted their role as puppets. But neither have they found a common will to exercise real power – because, after the latest falsified elections, they see the futility of any such action.

Putin has done more harm than he may have thought. He is no more than yet another apparatchik, of the communist mold, who seeks to keep the apparat under his thumb.

Any “pushed”, “helped”, “assisted”, “backed” revolution will only distort the end result, making it no better than the status quo.

That is why we in the West need to stay out of this and let the Russian people do it them selfs. And yes, a big YES, they can do it alone, they did it in the past and can do it again. And if it doesn’t happen it only means its not what Russian majority wants at this point in time.