It has been twenty years. The great V. V. Putin has become the Emperor of the Great Russia, and protected Russian sovereignty from the greedy claws of the foreign petrochemical giants.
Except, he neglected, or allowed, or knowingly handed Russia to his own bureaucrats. These guys have no talents of running a business, much less a municipality, so they pocket billions of rubles, euros, dollars, and export Russia's capital to build their own villas, buy their own vineyards, and open their own nest egg accounts at exclusive wealth management banks like the ones in Zug, Switzerland.
Even a manager of city's garbage disposal service is a millionaire, while the city is brimming with garbage and falling apart.
Mordor is the realm of the arch-villain Sauron.
