"putin(ov)shchina" exists.

[E Wayles Browne]

Fortunately, we don't have to speculate. Google finds about 377 instances
of putinshchina and about 33 of putinovshchina, some of which have
contexts enabling us to see how the users understand the words (others
just have vituperation).
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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> STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM wrote:
> . ...
>>
>> 2) Does Russian have any tradiiton of formations like "Spoonerism" or
>> "Malapropism" where a particular idiosyncracy or eccentricity  of an
>> individual, real or fictional, is caricatured. If so, how far does
>> this go back.
and Paul B. Gallagher replied:
> It does have a solid tradition of using "-shchina" for this purpose, but
> that can also refer to the period or the cultural environment and not
> simply to the practices. How would people here understand the neologism
> "Putinshchina" if I coined it?
>

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