their three meals are not enough for a man. there is no enough meat, there is no enough milk, there is no enough eggs, there is no enough bread. Russia is great, Russian invented spaceship, space station, satellite, element table, helicopter. Russia is poor, since all rich counties play dirty tricks. They create problems from nothing and make money from it.
And didn't they only recently move from issuing footwraps to real socks to their soldiers as well? As to why Russia is poor, isn't this due to sustained capital flight? Money doesn't stay in Russia, where investment and development are badly needed, though perhaps with certain exceptions. Moscow is rich, for instance, but in the land beyond things get primitive.
That is the government's own fault, it has created a climate where the wealthy do not feel their investments will be safe in Russia. One benefit of all this capital flight, however, is that land is very inexpensive. In other countries the wealthy have so much money to invest that the drive up the cost of land to unaffordable levels. This still does not benefit Russia very much, however, because Russia already has an unlimited amount of land.
Any Russian money goes into Putin's pocket. That's why he's so wealthy, and his nation is in shambles.
One of the reasons poor Russians are poor, is billionaires like Abramovich, who paid Amy Winehouse $2 million to sing one stupid retarded song at Moscow Art Gallery grand opening. Abramovich is disgusting. that money should have gone to poor Russians, not to some British/Jewish drug addict.