Do you believe Putin is a dictator?

Let me clarify my question...I will just give one example. When he invaded Ukraine and annexed eastern part of that country, US imposed sanctions on russians. Their economy crumbled. But Putin is not suffering it's the ordinary people that do. How can he gamble with people's lives like this...

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Cierzo · M

It does not matter. Russian people have elected him and want him in power.
If the reason to call him a dictator is that there is no free press, them seeing how western press is informing about American elections, or how the US have put pressure on Ecuador to cut internet for Julian Assange, these countries are not less dictatorial than Russia is. But at least Russia is not hypocrite, talking all the time about 'democracy'

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Cierzo · M

@Svarog: I really hope you are not American to say that