This Is What Bothers Them ...

 ... especially London which saw its bet (a house that is) burn. 

Oil and gas revenues of the federal budget in April increased by 239 billion rubles, or almost 40%, according to data published by the Ministry of Finance. The reason for the increase in fees is the price of Urals, which increased in March (taxes are paid with a monthly lag) to $77 per barrel. This is the first monthly increase in oil and gas revenues caused by the conflict in the Middle East that began at the end of February. In May, additional revenues should grow further - in April, Russian oil cost an average of $95 per barrel. In general, for the four months of 2026, the subsidence of oil and gas budget revenues by the same period in 2025 still remains, but then it will decrease rapidly. In April, federal budget tax revenues from the production and sale of oil and gas amounted to 855.6 billion rubles, which is 238.6 billion rubles, or 39%, more than it was in March, follows from the data released by the Ministry of Finance on May 6.

How much is R 1 Trillion, which Russia will surpass just about today or tomorrow. People who still do primitive math in USD will necessarily divide 1 trillion by a current Ruble to USD exchange rate and will get roughly $ 13.5 billion. Still huge sum but completely misleading, because Russians do not really pay that much attention to USD domestically and they love their Rubles, which, when adjusted for at least PPP, which still doesn't reflect the economic reality, because these Rubles will be spent primarily domestically, the actual "volume" of this sum grows dramatically. 

E.g. This is the newest pr. 885M (Yasen M class) submarine Perm'. At the outset it is a designated carrier of 3M22 Zircon and its further modifications. 

It is state-of-the-art. Her cost? R 41 billion. Just to demonstrate--if Russia would have decided to use all R Trillion on such submarines only, Russian Navy would have received ... 24 such submarines. What does the US Navy get for the exchange rate of $ 13.5 billion? Well, it gets one single CVN of Gerald Ford class (I will abstain from comments here), or it gets  around 2.3 Virginia-class subs or five Arleigh Burke-class DDGs. For the same R 1 Trillion (or $ 13.5 billion) Russia can get 23 project 22350M (Gorshkov M class FFG) or as they call it Super-Gorshkov hybrid (heavy frigate-light DDG) which can load all of its 64 VLS with all kinds of hypersonic weapons and is capable with a single salvo sink something like Marine Nationale. That's just one frigate out of those 23. But you get my drift, right?

So, for a "final blow" and those who still don't get the message. Of course, Russia has poverty and poor people, of course Russia has shit-holes. Everybody does, but what is being missed constantly--outright extreme wealth in Russia is not admired, especially when flaunted. Yet, lookie-lookie, that's from the World Bank. 

Somebody, get those ignoramuses to Russia (how about starting from Sarah Paine) and get them a tour (some CIA guys can join) of modern Russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok to get a grasp on why Russia is a first world high earning industrial society. Have a psychiatrist  accompanying them, because they may need help due to a severest cognitive dissonance. Don't get them to Moscow or St. Petersburg immediately, start easy on them, like Khabarovsk or Omsk, let them acclimatize.