I always considered that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that a larger pizza means the same number of slices, means more, for everyone. The problem, as I see, is that The Russians are hard wired to see economic matters as a zero sum game - if you gain, I lose. Too bad, actually. They would actually make good friends, if we could play the cards, correctly. Thanks!
I honestly don't know Russian thinking on these matters.
Economic natural law concepts are esoteric and difficult to present with a considerable language barrier, plus for almost everyone who is not quite young, un learning and then re learning is required before ya can even communicate on economics.