Back in the late 80s of the last century, Academician Moiseev noticed that twilight was coming for Russia, which looked like both sunset and dawn. Of course, any assessments of the political and socio-economic situation always suffer from subjectivity, but a deep demographic crisis (quantitative and qualitative at the same time), as well as an increasing technological gap with both the West and the East, indicate that today's Russia, despite the stunning Russian spring, in the long run, it is more likely to lean into its decline than to meet the dawn.