[jb6]

Russia will be still poor country as always was, thanks to their commies.

Are you that detached from reality? Russia is the 6th largest economy and the standard of living is higher in the cities then Polands, as is the incomes and growth rates. Most of the EU is broke, mainly Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and their GDPs are frozen or falling. As for Georgia, it has no natural resources, guess you'll be paying their welfare, enjoy.

[Lukasz]

Standard of living in Russia? Russia don’t have any standards. Russia have only two cities let say in pretty good condition Petersburg and Moscow. Their economy is six because of gas, oil and big population. Only oligarchs and mafia are rich people. To compare Russia and Poland all what I must do is go to pooooooooor Kaliningrad oblast.

[AdmSmith]

Russia is the 6th largest economy

How do you measure that?

Check the WTO statistics http://stat.wto.org/CountryProfile/WSDBCountryPFHome.aspx?Language=E the Russian Federation ranks as # 17 for export (#23 import) in merchandise and for commercial services # 29 for export (#20 import)

the figures for China is merchandise 5,6 and for commercial services 10,8

and for Korea merchandise 12,14 and for commercial services 18,13.