Last I checked, Obama, or any US leader wasn't advocating bringing back one of the most oppressive and brutal governments in the world's history. You know how many deaths the Soviet Union were responsible for? Or just simply how many people suffered under their brutal rule? Quite frankly, I'm tired of your self-righteousness, trying to equate what's going on in Russia with anything that has ever occurred in the US, thinking the US is just as bad (or dare I say worse) as that dictatorship now setting up in Kremlin, just a few dozen feet from where this man was shot! But fine, you want to make excuses for the mad man in Russia, go right ahead, you're free to after all. It's not like your in Russia and have to worry about being locked up or killed for opinions...
Edit: Again, all the ones you brought up (and not well sourced might I add) didn't come up two days before a rally against their authority! Maybe if Reagan had killed the reporter prior to blowing the lid, then you'd have a point that he was trying to stop the damaging information from coming out. But the damage had already been done, there was no reason to do it! Think about these things man!