If they are, they could take a page from chinas belt and road effort. The ussr was dissolved by a coward who didn't want to put in the effort to maintain glasn

If they are, they could take a page from chinas belt and road effort. The ussr was dissolved by a coward who didn't want to put in the effort to maintain glasnost and wasn't competent enough to engage satellite states for reforms and concerns. Not that you could blame him, as Brezhnev was keen on nuking the most unruly satellites as a solution and Yeltsin was a nationalist looking to russify the whole continent or isolate the nation entirely. At the end of the day Russian elites were too disconnected and disillusioned to care about the Union. Putin's nostalgia for it, while admirable, is bumbling desperation at best.