Is Russia a Free Democracy?

Almost 20,000 people have been arbitrarily detained for protesting against the war. 513 people that are persecuted for their political views and religious beliefs. Most of those arrested were arrested in the first few weeks of the war. I know that the results of those opinion polls that are offered to the west, again, by propaganda, show that 80-something percent of support for Putin's war in Ukraine. Those are opinion polls conducted in a near-totalitarian state by state-controlled pollsters. And I believe that those are the things that show that, yes, there are no mass protests, it's true. Whether I would like to see them in the streets, of course I would.