How familiar with Russia are you, by the way? Maybe if we trade backgrounds, the conversation could proceed more interestingly... My contacts are mostly through my wife, so I hear it from St. Petersburg, North Ossetia, Georgia, and the Ukraine, with a slightly over-representative Jewish tint. I am none of the aforenamed.
Mugabe, yes, initially wanted to redistribute the land wonderfully... didn't totally think that one through.
I just mean to say that integrity and competence are not analogues.