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It's not about the economy. It's the soviet era again, the dictatorship, which is extremely antagonist to research and innovation.
For innovation to happen, you need many people, and especially high ranked ones, to admit that something can improve. And then you need the system to highlight true solutions rather than favour your friends and family.
USSR was plagued by these kind of problems. Russia seems somehow even worse.
Russia, USSR and the Russian empire are basically the same geopolitical entity.
They've never not been a dictatorship and you don't need admissions or highlights to innovate. And even if they did, i addressed failures of leadership in my last comment.
I guess you could argue that the dual problem of having a tight war economy and an idiot dictator are like twin dragons, one can't resolve the other without undermining itself.