I might be overly critical, because as a Russian myself, I am very unsatisfied with the current state of Russia, and I recognize that maybe he's not exactly a fascist, but more of a reactionary. Things like having castrated communists party, the anti-LGBT laws, his endorsement of Ivan Ilyin (a fascist and nazi sympatizer!) and Dugin, his slander of communism and Lenin, the lack of effort in social plan for the poor...

He's not a communist, but not a Gaddafi (a criticizable person who did a lot of good things, and was overall a great thing for Lybia) either.

Credit where it's due tho, at least he avoided the entire collapse of Russia post-Yeltsin.