Further to that (and your previous response to me), Russia might have wealth, but it doesn't have the wealth it did a few years ago. It doesn't have as much flexibility in varying how it derives it, it has fewer options where it draws it from and she has greater demands, bleaker prospects, worsening conditions, far fewer friends and rapidly reduced options. She doesn't have the money she needs or want for the future she has promised her people.
In 1998 yearly average Oil price was $11.91
In 2013 it was $89.84........................... which would you rather have ?
Someone already mentioned the Pension steal but UK has had £100 ($160) billion stolen from its pensions since 1997.