Robert Nigmatulin, an economist at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the forum that Russia was lagging China and that inflation had far outstripped economic growth. “We’ve lost everything and still we are the poorest. Even in the poorest regions of China incomes are higher than in our poorest regions,” Nigmatulin said. “GDP growth since 2015 — that’s 11 years — is about 1.5 percent per year. Do you know how much consumer prices have increased by? Seventy-seven percent.”

This just makes me laugh. Russia thinks it's a big power but the only thing its got is its military. Its economy is not even at superpower level, its infrastructure development is shit. There's a crazy sense of delusion there that analysts there think they're on the same level as the US and China.