Stop and think, fuckheads
BBC is interviewing some Russian "dissident" who says Russia is a police state because people argue with her. BBC enthusiastically agrees with this assertion.
In a police state,
dissidents are in jail or dead. They are not giving interviews to enemy broadcasters. If you can live and work and talk openly to foreign enemies, you are NOT in a police state.
You may be uncomfortable because the majority of the people approve of the government you dislike. That's not a police state, that's just life.