Even the ones who have benefitted want out, and for very good reasons.

Lots of anecdotal evidence for this, of course, but when you’re upper-middle class all want out and are planning to send their children out, for good, it doesn’t matter whether oil hits 160 a barrel or not.  Brain drain is what it is, and constantly defending oneself against corruption is a guarantee that initiative that might make Russians’ lives better won’t be exercised, for fear of making the innovator into a target.