With Putin’s current clampdown on civil society, re-nationalization of key segments of the economy, failure to develop any political approach to resolving the conflict in Chechnya, and cultivation of imperial nostalgia, Russia is killing its only chance to matter in the future.
目前，普京对俄国的公民社会予以压制、对俄罗斯的关键经济部门重新实行国有、找不到解决车臣地区冲突的政治途径以及时时酝酿着对过去帝国的怀旧情绪，所有这些无一不在扼杀俄罗斯未来发展的唯一机会。