you can add Orban and Erdogan to that list

Limiting it to the last years of Putin is absolutely incorrect. Look into the 1999 apartment bombings in connection to the war in Chechnya, the NTV takeover, Putin’s handling of the Nord-Ost and Beslan sieges and the Kursk disaster, as well as the early killings and persecution of his political opponents: Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, and Khodorkovsky. The invasion of Georgia that you hinted at was in 2008. The invasion of Ukraine was in 2014.