Despite calls by the Russian public for reform – from modernization of the military and decrepit and corrupt legal institutions to diversification of the economy beyond natural-resource extraction and the military-industrial complex – Putin has stuck to his autocratic guns.
尽管俄罗斯公众渴望改革——从实现军事和陈腐的司法制度的现代化到实现经济超越自然资源提取和军工的多样化——普京仍死抱着独裁主义枪杆子不放。