@kmic In terms of "following Russia", there is a specific pattern of political engineering behaviours that PiS copied verbatim from Russia:

* attempt to take control over the judiciary
* state TV pushing aggressive government propaganda
* other state media banning not only any criticism against government (Trójka and Kazik) but also firing journalists who don't comply
* wild conspiracy theories pushed to attract fringe political supporters ("zamach smoleński")
* rewriting history ("wyklęci")