Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Masanin ilimin zamantakewar siyasa Larry Diamond yayi jayayya cewa harin da Putin yayi akan dimokiradiyya mai sassaucin ra'ayi an nuna shi ta hanyar shiga tsakani na 2008
don yankunan Abkhazia da Kudancin Ossetia a kan Georgia mai zaman kanta, goyon bayan Rasha ga Viktor Yanukovych a Ukraine, da kuma shiga tsakani na Rasha a Ukraine ta hanyar dakarun da ba su da wata alama a shekarar 2014. An zargi Putin da bayar da tallafin kuɗi ga jam'iyyun dama-dama ko jam'iyyun kishin ƙasa a duk faɗin Turai. Misali, National Front (yanzu Rally na Kasa) ya sami rancen Euro miliyan 9 daga bankin Rasha a cikin 2014. Larry Diamond yayi jayayya cewa wannan ya rinjayi manufofin National Front kamar tallafin Marine Le Pen don haɗawa da Crimea.