Nope I have not noticed. Tell me, what major corporation in the US has not paid dividends, for example. Or what major western country just defaulted on its sovereign debt? And I did not realize western countries had to find ways to replace things like ball bearings.

While there are issues in the west, due to supply chains, because of the pandemic, it is nowhere close to where Russia is heading. I recommend, for reference, you find a good read on the fun year that was 1992 for Moscow, because that is in the cards.

Here is another. Just came out yesterday:

This week, shareholders of Sberbank at the annual meeting supported the recommendation of the Supervisory Board not to pay dividends. And this is despite the record profit that Sberbank received last year - 1.25 trillion rubles. But German Gref will always have the money to test the top managers of the bank for mental disorders and homosexuality, as well as the development of an analogue of Tinder. These projects are carried out by the Laboratory of Neurosciences, headed by well-known psychologist Andrey Kurpatov.

https://t.me/bazabazon/12232

This is not precisely a small bank either.