It is impossible to fix the north Caucasus, or indeed any of the country's fissiparous regions, without dealing with Moscow's own larger defects.

不处理好莫斯科自身的巨大缺陷，要想稳定北高加索地区或者这个国家任何一个有分离倾向的地区是不可能的。

Russia's far east has always been the most strategically vulnerable part of Moscow's fissiparous imperium, in what is the world's biggest country.

在莫斯科对于这个世界上最大国家千疮百孔的统治权当中，俄罗斯的远东地区历来都是战略上最脆弱的一部分。