Putin has discarded former President Dmitri Medvedev’s concept of a “partnership for modernization” with the West. But a Eurasian customs union among post-Soviet and other countries is not the road to modernization for Russia; nor is an effort to make the defense industry the engine of industrialization.
普京已经抛弃了前总统梅德韦杰夫与西方进行“为了现代化的合作”的概念。但由前苏联和其他国家组成的欧亚关税联盟绝不是俄罗斯的现代化之路；其将国防业作为工业化引擎的方针亦然。简言之，这些都是苏联模式，曾经失败过，也将再次失败。