Russia's trump card is space.

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Other than first satellite, first space suit, first man in space, first space walk, first rover, first space station, first modular space station, first fully automated space shuttle, Russia remains the only country that landed on Venus. Technology = power. So Russia has power.

The Venera program: When Russia went to Venus

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-venera-program-when-russia-went-to-venus

Venera 13: First Color Pictures From Venus

https://www.space.com/18551-venera-13.html

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

@pakistanipower

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Wow if that is their card then we must hold much of the deck.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

No,russia's trump card is time,water and land.They are culturally more cohesive than the west which is imploding culturally and affecting the whole world with it.Global warming is actually a good thingf or russia.It gains access to huge resources in the arctic.More importantly as temperatures rise with decades the siberian tundras will slowly become far more habitable grasslands allowing for settlement enmasse and population boom.They also have the biggest reserves of freshwater there.
Biggest threats to russia are corruption and excessive autocracy.