I was born in Russia and lived there good chunk of my life. I agree it's not that simple and it took two decades to turn the country into whatever it became now.

When country is already turned into authoritarian military regime there is obviously no way to turn back to democracy by political actions alone.

Yet back in 2006-2016 it was still possible to turn things around if enough people cared. Unfortunately majority of population was happy to ignore politics and now everyone pays the price.