Are there ways to measure "how much power did "Russia" lose when the Soviet Union broke up?"
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There was a serious drop in GDP. The following graphic shows drop in GDP per captia for Russian Federation (not the USSR):
Passengers transported by civil air transport (RSFSR compared to Russia):
(source)
Passengers transported by intercity rail transport:
There was also a serious drop in demographic indicators. The following plot shows birth rate (red), death rate (black) per 1000 citizens for Russian Federation:
For a longer period:
There was an increase in crime rate (red=murders, green=drugs-related crimes):
Number of drugs addicts:
Growth in tuberculosis rate (red=Russia, green=Ukraine):
Average wage in kilograms of potatoes:
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I doubt whether one can expect any meaningful overall quantitative evaluation on this topic (also given the background of external commodity price index rises during that time).
For instance, how would one quantify the effects of Russia's brain drain? Sure, one could start by multiplying some average-income-plus-cost-of-education with the known number of emigrees. One Sergey Brin (Сергей Михайлович Брин) was born in Moscow: so would we have to subtract (say half of) Google's stock value from Russia's current mineral wealth? Besides, who may know in which countries exactly the oligarchs' giant fortunes may currently reside? An what is the real "monetary" cost of being led by a former KGB officer (some say in the mold of Yuri Andropov)?
So with that I think any real answer to Russia's relative gain or loss has to be a qualitative one, despite what investment bankers do all the time :)
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