Russia is the largest country by land mass. Massive natural resources. Great schools, scientists, engineers. Fantastic society.
The wealth is obviously there, it's just a mafia operation with Putin at the helm. The Oligarchs have been milking the country for decades. The people are blinded by Oligarch propoganda. Kind of like the republican base in America is blinded by GOP propoganda.
It's perfectly fine that labor is undervalued, that everybody is poor, that society is crumbling because Putin/Trump tells it like it is. Lol