It was out of fresh ideas in 1989, even before the impending fall of the Soviet Union, the fate of which would have been foretold by any good intelligence agent, except by that time in the world's history we had none. It's the same problem today. Not missing for a minute Putin's ambitions, the country is backward, bankrupt and makes no product anyone participating in a free market would choose to purchase. The economy is largely sustained by commodities for which their is a well-established international market with well-known international prices.
The very same people who were completely surprised by 9/11 and swore up and down Iraq was festooned with endless stockpiles of WMD.
Not completely so. Kaspersky Lab does some very good anti-virus software. Also, they make some indispensable rocket launchers.
Russia does make SOME excellent products. Spirits, chocolate, and ice cream that can exceed any equivalent western product in quality come to mind.