Until now? What's changed?
Russian Federation is making a comeback with power.
They've just started to return in game. Now again they act as they want, they operate around the world first times since fall of the USSR.
Yep, small scale compared to cold war -era, but things don't happen overnight when you have to build up empire out of ruins all over again.
New arms developing and some in production already. New nuclear-subs to replace old ones already joined the fleet...

With brand new bulava-missiles:

Remember this


Huge amphibious assault chopper carriers in order from France:

Aircraft carrier groups planned. New sophisticated nuke-systems produced, strategic and tactical. New doctrine, allowing use of tactical nukes with lower threshold.
And don't forget Russian Federation showed it doesn't anymore listen to UN when they put Georgian bastards in their place. 5 fkin' days




Look... Russians captured US-leased Hummers from Georgia LOL
Back in 2008 during the conflict, I remember some Russian official said they could sink whole NATO-fleet on Black Sea in very short time if necessary..

Not to mention Russian Federation providing NASA astronauts lifts to space these days. Back in space-game also

