In former Ambassador Michael McFaul's opinion (June 2004), Russia's "impressive" short-term economic growth "came simultaneously with the destruction of free media, threats to civil society and an unmitigated corruption of justice".
邁克爾·麥克福爾在2004年6月曾指出俄羅斯“令人印象深刻”的短期經濟增長是同時附隨“對媒體自由的破壞、對民間社會的威脅和影響正義的腐敗”。