[AdmSmith]

For many, the face of poverty in Russia is to be found in the country’s dying countryside, but a new survey finds that more than half of the population of its largest cities is now poor, and predicts that ever more urban Russians are becoming poor, a development with potentially ominous political consequences.

Even in Moscow, 43 percent of the residents are poor, with nine percent of them critically poor, according to a study of 35 cities in the Russian Federation with more than 500,000 residents carried out by sociologists at the Russian government’s Finance University.

http://www.interpretermag.com/more-than-half-of-russias-urban-residents-are-now-poor/

[cloudmountain]

I read the article.
Russia is a huge place with tons of natural resources. There has to be incredible thievery going on, mass corruption and an attitude that escapes me.

Have I got it wrong?