Quote Originally Posted by Alex80 View Post
Just want to ask, if you change "one party" to "two party" in this sentence (keeping all other things the same) - will it be better and bring more democracy?
Nope.
The level of democracy in one country is not calculated by the number of parties that take or leave the power.
Japan which is a real democracy for many years (I think half century) had only one ruling party with overwhelming majority.
At the moment Russia cannot become a real democracy because the "social capital" which is indispensable for the formation of a real democracy simply does not exist.
Media will remain under the control of Putin.
Nevertheless let's hope that things will change, but in order the things to change we should have an improvement of the economic conditions in Russia.