What went wrong with Russia in the 1990s

On the origins of Putinism

Who lost Russia?

Or, more prosaically, how is it that Russia is ruled by a despotic and expansionist regime while the vast majority of post-communist Europe is peaceful, more-or-less democratic, and willingly integrated into the western system?

After all, though the war in Ukraine is new, the conflict with Ukraine dates back to Russia seizing Crimea in 20…