Konstantin Sonin@k_sonin
This graph tells a lot. At the beginning of the transition 30 years ago, Russians were richer than people in all newly-market East and North European countries. Now, they are poorer, on average, than all of them. For two major reasons: first, the depth of the 1990s crisis, and, no less important, second, the failure to grow after 2009. Putin first failed economic development, then started a war.