First doing everything in its power to sabotage for the USSR
I think they did not do enough. It would have been great if USSR dissolved sooner.
then looting after it was dismantled
Locals looted it more than everyone else.
and uwarranted scaremongering about the Russian military.
I certainly do not want to see this near my hometown.
Russian tanks roll towards Tbilisi - 14 August 2008 - YouTube
What happened in the USSR, what happened afterwards and what problems there are (or aren't) with human rights inside of Russia, is the Russian peoples' problem.
So if someone is beaten on the street - it's his problem?
Whatever the people there prefer, or ar prepared to put up with, should be accepted by other countries.
Dictatorships are not what people prefer.
Dictatorship is only good for dictator and his henchmen.
If anyone does not like it - he is killed or otherwise silenced.
Democracy is slow, expensive and inefficient, but it is the ONLY form of government that has feedback from people.
Only democratically elected government can be at least partially called "what people prefer".
And only democratic countries have "self determination".
Likewise whether or not Russia is a democracy.
That is how democratic country's parliament's history should look like:
http://www.db.lv/uploads/article/002...1316528556.jpg
Tautas Partija and Latvijas Ceļš fucked up - so they now do not have any representation in parliament.
Without revolution or bloodshed.

Russia with it's Eternal Vladimir ceirtainly do not look like that.
Putin can do whatever he wants - he will probably rule till the end of his life - if Russians do not start a revolution (and possibly civil war too).