Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a master of unfortunate mixed messages. News that it was, in effect, expelling the US Agency for International Development came on the same day Sberbank was raising $5.2bn in a share offering. So Russia is open to billions of dollars from foreign investors to help develop a mammoth state-controlled bank. But not to a few tens of millions of dollars a year in aid, more than half spent not on the democracy promotion the Kremlin fears but on fighting Aids and helping disabled children.
俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)是发布令人遗憾的矛盾信号的大师。就在俄罗斯联邦储蓄银行(Sberbank)宣布通过公开募股筹集52亿美元资金的同一天，有消息称，俄罗斯实质上正在赶走美国国际开发署(USAID)。这么说，俄罗斯愿意接受外国投资者数十亿美元的资金，帮助其发展一家巨型国有银行，但却不愿意接受每年数千万美元的援助，其中超过一半的资金都用于防治艾滋病和帮助残疾儿童，而非用于克里姆林宫担心的事情——推动民主进程。
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