近年来用暴力和补贴平息车臣叛乱，拘捕和驱逐几个资金不菲的反对者并且最近几年在巴普洛夫斯基亲自监督下进行大幅度“社会投资 ” 。 这一投资收买了俄国人民，没有令人信服的力量可以严重挑战普京的人马。
Since the pacification of Chechnya with violence and subsidies, the incarceration or emigration of a few financially viable opponents, and the massive “social investments” of recent years, which, under Medvedev’s personal supervision, have bribed the population, no credible force can seriously challenge Putin’s men.