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by seunosewa 1267 days ago
Yes, in time past. And they might be able to manage more of those in the future under new leadership.
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It was the Soviet Union, not Russia. They really are different things, for example the Space Programme was mostly the development of the R-7 rocket, which was designed by a Ukrainian (Sergei Korolev).

You probably heard about the sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. The Moskva was made in Soviet Ukraine, in Mykolaiv. Not in Russia. Shame they mismanaged it so much since then that just a few guided cruise missiles did the job.

The military budget of Russia is a far cry of the military budget of the Soviet Union. The scale is not even comparable, arguably the per-soldier performance went down as well.