Just as economic booms amplify a country's assets, so busts magnify their frailties. This crisis is rapidly exposing the design flaws in Vladimir Putin's project: the failure to create impartial state institutions; the elimination of constitutional checks and balances; and a potentially brittle social compact dependent on the Kremlin delivering the economic goods. In such dangerous times it is all the more urgent for the west and Russia to devise new rules of engagement.
正如經濟繁榮會夸大一國的資產，衰退也會放大其脆弱。這場危機迅速暴露出弗拉基米爾普京(Vladimir Putin)在方案設計上的缺陷：未能建立公正的國家機構；消除了憲法制衡；依靠政府提供經濟品的社會契約潛藏著脆弱性。在這樣的危險時期，西方和俄羅斯更加迫切需要制定彼此接觸的新規則。
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