Has there been "rollback" of democracy in Russia under Putin?

... he wants "democracy," he will say absolutely not.” In the same vein, Stephen Holmes wrote in 2001 that “Vladimir Putin may or may not be dismantling Yeltsinism. But he is not dismantling ‘democracy,’ for no such system ... ... changed. People have lost their fear, and are getting used to the idea of a country that belongs to them, rather than the ruling elites and the чиновничство (officialdom). They are no longer willing to accept passively the indignities to which ...