Unfortunately, there is also street crime and white collar crime and unemployment and corruption. Outisde of a few big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg there is still a legacy of deep poverty and even a decline in living standards and life expectancy. Despite these birth pangs, there is progress in Russia. Whether that progress will continue and accelerate or regress is an open question as the 3rd millenium begins. The case of China is similar but different.
China is still a communist state.
These contradictory memes are not good bed-fellows. On the one hand travelers to China today are amazed at the rapid industrialization and the dramatic increases in wealth and living standards even in the poorer provinces like extreme southwest Yunnan. And where there was decadence, squalor and savage repression a few years ago there are now clean streets, bright lights and hope. New cities are springing up with astonishing speed. All this and more is emerging in modern China.