During the first decade of the new century, Russia benefited from the combined effect of an old hydrocarbon industry that privatization in the 1990s had made more efficient and high oil prices. The reversal of sought-after economic diversification, and the reduction of “modernization” to little more than a slogan, caused no immediate concern.
在新世纪的第一个十年中，俄罗斯得益于20世纪90年代私有化改革给旧石油工业带来的效率增长以及高油价。受欢迎的经济多样化势头出现倒退，“现代化”也沦为一句口号，但这些并没有立刻引起关注。