That is not the case; we are into Cold War II, and Russia is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy:
Currently Putin is instigating the merger of the corrupt ordinary court system and the well-functioning economic courts, which in all likelihood will render the economic courts as corrupt as the ordinary ones. Not very convincingly, Putin argued that “unifying these courts will allow us to bring judicial practice onto one track, and therefore strengthen the guarantees protecting a crucial constitutional principle, the equality of all before the law.” Of course, the president cannot state openly that he is promoting the inequality of corruption.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putins-conservative-state-capitalism/491790.html
Speaking last June at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Dmitry Medvedev said: “I want to state very definitely - we are not building a state capitalism.†President-elect Vladimir Putin has promised to reduce the government's role in the economy by 2016. In an article published last January in business daily Vedomosti, Putin proposed to partly privatize dealing with state-owned enterprises working in the high-tech sector, such as Rosatom and Rostekhnology.
Exiting president Medvedev and president-elect Putin may deny that Russia's powers-that-be are not building state capitalism. But deny it or not, over two decades Russia has been breathing hard under a worse socio-economic system - a state-oligarchy capitalism.
http://rbth.com/articles/2012/03/23/what_kind_of_capitalism_has_russia_built_15160.html
You are correct ....
But I have found it to be a frustrating waste of time to argue the point here in the midst of what I can only describe as “Gorbasm II”, only this time it’s on the other political side.
In any case, how this has occurred is less important then the fact it is occurring. I think it’s also related to what I call geopolitical near sightedness.
I see a lot of Mr. Magoo’s...