Perhaps Borodin was just enjoying a rare night out and is normally an abstemious man, but his thuggish behavior is perhaps not entirely atypical of a new class of Russians that has accumulated a great deal of money and power since the Soviet Union collapsed.
Puede ser que esa noche Borodin justo estuviera de parranda y que el resto del tiempo sea abstemio; pero su conducta brutal no es del todo ajena a la nueva clase de ricos y poderosos rusos que surgió tras la caída de la Unión Soviética.