According to a New York Times reporter, fascist Russia is a much better thing than a Communist Russia.

That´s what the European right was saying in the 1930s of Germany and Italy.

And whatever Mr Kristof thinks, demonstrations didn´t brought down those governments and they hardly will bring down Russia´s new order, which has on it´s side the long Russian tradition of state opression running well into the czarist times - and the failure of free market economical policies and democracy of making life better, not worse, for the average Russian.