worse than other east europe countries.
Also, "poor" depends on by what standards. For "poor" Russians, of course they are not comparing themselves to africans, indians, or even poor chinese. Why has Melania married to Trump? I don't think she's grown up in a living condition poor than Russia probably with more individual freedoms.
I happen to know a quite lot of Rusians, and east europeans. Don't have time to get into that now. Maybe later....