Wrong. Russia is not "slid[ing] into authoritarianism." Russia is sliding from the poverty and misery of the "democratic" (ha ha) 1990s into prosperity and normality, although that seems to piss people off for some reason.
^^^ CB; This would be sliding back into the prosperity and normality of the Soviet Union, socialism. It is not the Market at work, no doubt. It is caused by curbing the Market, isn't it ?