Moron. Russian GDP had grown by 20% over past decade. I see its impossible to insert any knowedge into your brain. You are one of those low educated American village rednecks with inferiority complexes running around trying to convince everyone that you are some sort of exceptional who belongs to superior American race. And then someone say "hey, im not impressed", just slap you and laugh about your crumbling "supapawa" that you brag about, you start repeating mantras trying to convince yourself in existence of delusional reality to stop your buthurt. The funny thing that morons who run your government, sit in congress and propagandists working in every US media outlet act exactly the same way as low iq American internet trolls.
Chernobyl is in Ukraine. 3 most depressed hellholes of former USSR are Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. All 3 are controlled by corrupt Western puppet regimes and oligarchs with all their money stored in Western bank accounts. They run exactly where their Western masters order them. While their population run to Russia to feed themselves.
BTW EU also have 3 most poor and depressed hellholes - Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. Ukrainians and Greeks are now fiercely competing with each other for @ss cleaning job of 90 years old folks in rich EU countries.