Trash Can

Everyone knows what the 1993 coup d'état was, right? Here's some information:

In English-language media, the main axis of the conflict is defined as between supporters of parliament or defenders of the Parliament on one side, and part of the Muscovites who supported Yeltsin, the police, and elite divisions of the Russian military forces on the other.

As we all remember, the latter won. Yeltsin appointed Putin as his successor, and Putin appointed Medvedev. Isn't that pure totalitarianism? (if you look at it from the outside). And you're asking, "Why don't they like us? Why don't they like us?"