Though liberalizing reforms could cure Russia’s ailments, such an agenda is unlikely to be embraced in a corruption-plagued country with an emphatically illiberal leadership. Putin, after all, has sought to promote a neo-Slavophile identity defined above all by suspicion of Western cultural and intellectual influence.
尽管自由化改革可以治愈俄国的顽疾，但改革在实行专制统治的腐败国家不太可能推行下去。毕竟，普京力求在质疑西方文化和学术影响的前提下推行亲斯拉夫主义。