The establishment of a pro-Western puppet government and the collapse of Russia into several enclaves are one and the same. Russia cannot exist without coercion. Remember the 90s. Yeltsin's reign is considered to be a very liberal time, and during his reign there were signs of the collapse of the Russian Federation (the war in Chechnya and Dagestan, active attempts at secession in Tatarstan). But hard Putin came and established tough orders, crushed the resistance of the separatists. Russia was saved.