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North Korean link you sent is irrelevant. The take on statistics you sent is a sort of ‘half-empty glass’ take.
It is correct but statistics do not necessarily reflect the situation you encounter in real life.

Above I tried to outline the issues of Russian infrastructure and most of these aren’t the result of backwardness and corruption.

One important thing everyone seems to overlook is that the majority of Russian road infrastructure was looking exactly like Sterling Heights just 20 years ago.

As for today the link of ‘good road’ I sent you is not of somehow exceptional highway. It is how the average rather extensively used road in remove rural area of Russia is looking nowadays. There are better roads around more populous areas. There are worse roads for sure but I just explained you why based on my personal experience of driving in Archangelsk region which you brought as an example of the territory which is underdeveloped in terms of road infrastructure.

I think I tried to explain why Moscow has it better than Archangelsk and why it is justified. Once again Moscow region houses 15% of total Russian population on twice the territory of Vermont. Archangelsk region houses 0,5% of Russian population on the territory equal to France. Of course most of its roads are unimproved and it is justified.
Building six lane thousand miles long highways between small town which doesn’t have a lot of trade going on makes about as much sense as building high speed rail in between ghost towns in high desert in US.
I believe Russia is correct in not pursuing the latter but focusing on routes which is in higher use.