By Ben Aris in Berlin The pressure of the war in Ukraine has forced the Kremlin to push through a raft of long overdue reforms as its struggles to raise more revenues for the budget, increase the efficiency of the economy and keep the people happy. Despite Russia’s reputation for crony capitalism and greedy oligarchs, since about 2014 when sanctions were first imposed on Russia after the annexation of the Crimea, the Kremlin has been trying to revamp the economy with some success. Now the economy is under pressure again as the weight of funding a major full scale war weighs on the federal budg…