This country is deep rooted internally, instead of promoted internal Reform and increasing the living standard of average Russian, started with battle against corruption and colution, taking back oligarch power, giving energy subsidy for the masses, promoting food and health manufacturing industry as their country had tremendous capital leftover from Soviet legacy, battling criminal ring accross the country, confiscated weaponry from ilegal Forces (like Kadirov thugs) , battling drug dealer, using oil dividen for building infrastructure, promoting manufacturing industry accross the board like electronic, and so on.
but alas they keep the oligarch lead the power and left the country living under grand imperialist grandeur illusion. They are using the oil Funds to promoting military (but with most of the Funds being corrupted by the people in power), threatened their neighbor, grabbing their lands, killing dissident and other bad stuff the country should not do so. And now they are wondering how their former vassals countries left them one by one and choose European Union or NATO to protect themselves