The better analogy to England, IMHO, at present is comparing the instant oligarchs of privatized Russia to the New Millionaires of England ... or contrasting, rather.
Kissinger made that "decent people" quote while in St. Petersburg as part of a group assembled by the ill-fated Sobchak to encourage investment. I think they really do believe in the "saving graces" of western materialism insofar as it may bring monied or suddenly powerful men into an Inner Ring of Counterpart brokers who'll see eye to eye.
Granted, I've no doubt they do on most levels ... it's just that in the purely material realm they inhabit, the East and Russians still infected with the "Will of the People" militant atheist bent will eat them alive.
In that Kissinger's just done too many bone-numbing dumb things not to be on that side ... and made too many clearly evil statements evidencing absolutely no human soul whatsoever ... it's quite possible he's a John the Baptist sort whose baptizing from both sides of the river into which one day soon will step the Anti-Christ.
Don't worry that I think so linearly I believe he'll be standing there to give him the official plunge. Clearly the anti-Christ might wish to wait a bit until Technology's got some (suitably cannibalistic) life extension in order so he can reign the length of an Egyptian Kingdom or Chinese Dynasty.
(Sometimes I've the ill suspicion that, if we've 1,000 years of peace in store, it's going to be implemented by Perpetual Peace-keepers, if you know what I mean. Like Brzerzinski said, Kosovo was just a "microcosm of what the world is about to be.")