

Both Russians in Hollywood movies and Russians according to stereotypes refer to 1990s, when the Soviet economy was destroyed and engineers, researchers and teachers had to go sell stuff at the markets or become criminals.
It is interesting how Hollywood and stereotypes love imagining that Russia is still living in the 1990s.

Being poor or rich is not about how many resources you have, but how are resources distributed among the population. If all resources are exploited by oligarchs, the population will bee poor anyway.