"... [A]uthoritarianism is the real curse of Russia and the cause of all its troubles. We cannot get rid of it, despite the opportunities regularly provided by history. Russia had its last chance of this kind after the end of the U.S.S.R., but both the democratic public inside the country and Western leaders at the time made the monstrous mistake of agreeing to the model — proposed by Boris Yeltsin’s team — of a presidential republic with enormous powers for the leader. Giving plenty of power to a good guy seemed logical at the time. Yet the inevitable soon happened: The good guy went bad."
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Alexei Navanly, "Opinion Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like" (30 September 2022), The Washington Post, emphasis added.
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