Quote from toc:
Instead of making foolish comments, the Russian political analyst should focus on finding some alternative to oil revenues, which has been keeping them afloat for last 8 years or so.
Other than Oil-Gas and Commodity items, Russians do not have any other major sector or group of small sectors to talk about and neither have they worked on developing any which can sustain them like oil and gas has.
Another problem they have is declining populations and near refusal to develop and invest in areas outside or distant from Moscow.
Russian political and economic paradigm charts are very volatile with quick and big swings in each direction. That is unlike a major and more like a dependent power.