Russia operates as a violent, patriarchal and pathological system enabled by decades of public indifference.
Systemic Pathology
This is a violent, patriarchal and pathological system, which, through acclamation, lack of dissent, and years of pretending the king is clothed, has been accepted as binding across all of Russia.
It is like taking a pathological family, multiplying it by 140 million people, and calling the resulting entity a state.
Statehood Questioned
In reality, Russia is not a state because no one cares about it. Just as in that pathological family, no one loves anyone and no one is responsible for anyone.
People simply live together, convinced that anywhere else would be either worse or at least equally bad.