Legitimacy and stability are inseparable in practice, because maintaining stability in the absence of legitimacy would ultimately require Tiananmen-style repression. But this can be ruled out in today’s Russia, because the instruments to implement it – notably an army that would obey orders to mow people down in the streets – are lacking.
合法性和稳定实际上是密不可分的，缺乏合法性地维护稳定最终需要天安门事件式的镇压来实现。但是这种结果在今天的俄罗斯是不可能出现的，因为缺乏实施它的工具，就是说一支会遵从命令走上街头用机枪扫杀群众的军队。