No, it's not. Please refrain from this kind of personal comment.

I wasn't suggesting that the US meddle in Russia's political system. Russia was already moving to democracy by itself. The point was to provide economic aid to support that existing, fledgling, fragile democracy. What happened, unfortunately, is that many Russians suffered heavily economically during the transition, and they started to look back with some fondness to the "good old days", because they were worse off financially than before. That's where the western world could have helped.