MOSCOW – “Image is everything” might be a viable credo if you are the house of Gucci or a catwalk model, but it is definitely not appropriate as a national strategy. Yet “Putinism,” the ruling ideology of the Russia that Vladimir Putin has forged during his ten years in power, is all about image – the image of a reconstituted great power restored to the world stage.
莫斯科&#45;&#45;“形象即一切”可能对于Gucci这样的时尚大牌或T型台上的模特而言是个不错的信条，但作为一种国家战略它肯定是不合适的。然而，普京在位十年所一手缔造的俄罗斯统治思想“普京主义”却是一切以形象为中心&#45;&#45;一个重返世界舞台的再造大国的形象。