What if the Russian Federation had become a proper functioning Liberal Democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union, meaning that:
*Genuine party political pluralism exists, and there is no one party/dominant party system.
*An incumbent political party has to loose at least one Presidential AND legislative election between 1991 and the present day.
*No Putin or anyone like him in power
*The Chechenya crisis doesn't happen - let's say that Chechenya during the USSR is an SSR in its own right and not an ASSR within the RSFSR - making its independence happen in 1991 in the same way that Kazakhstan's independence happens.
*The Georgian crisis doesn't happen either..
The question is, how would this all have changed relations between Russia and the West?