Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s grudging perestroika
Russian municpal workers scatter sand in front of State Historical museum decorated for the upcoming Victory Day celebrations on the Red Square, central Moscow, on April 30, 2015.
There is a widespread view in the West that Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine and confrontational policies toward the United States and Europe are an attempt to revitalize aspects of its lost Soviet glory days. But if we look at some of the Kremlin’s domestic policy initiatives, we see a country struggling to become less "Soviet" in its actions and reform its decrepit institutions before it's too late.
