60-70% of government positions that can be filled with appointment are manned by former KGB and current FSB. The KGB/FSB also dominate the economy... and even the Russian Orthodox Church! With 100% of Russian priests in the hierarchy being hold overs from the KGB days with very large KGB files and documents on them for all their good work, such as Archbishop Kirill who was still spreading Liberation Theology as recently as 2009.
These criminals, liars, thieves and killers did not reform simply because the Soviet Union fell. In fact, they got even more powerful when it did!
If our government fell today, whatever should take over would be swarming with our bureaucrats. To think that 60-to 70% of them would still be there after 30 years is ridiculous though. As for the Russian Orthodox Church, they actually had priests who were believers. I went to the funeral of one in 1990, that had been axed to death by a group called "Pomyat" because he was Jewish and was preaching the Gospel. I'm not sure which offended them more. You need to think of Russia as a Christian Empire, and Putin as Tsar. It's why our Democrat Communists hate Russia so much now.