Looking at the trends in the mood of the majority of Russian society, which became especially clear after 2022, we can confidently state that it has become a society of "waiters".
We are not talking about the relatively limited layer of those who were allowed to settle in the so-called "rich world" or who enjoy integration with the regime established in the Russian Federation.
Most of those who left live in the hope that if not them, then their children will achieve the desired status of a citizen. It's fine that they are now allowed to pay for education, but most of them are not allowed to work with Russian citizenship, and elderly parents who need transport for treatment are considered part of the "Russian threat".
Those who remain mostly prefer to be guided by the principle of "pay and negotiate", trying by all means to avoid (often in the literal physical sense) the newly created threats as if in abundance.
Both are waiting and hoping. The question is - for what?
After rehearsals for Covid in 2020, we can state with a high degree of confidence that hopes for evolutionary changes, however desirable they may be, can be postponed.
In accepting the status of "I am nothing", one should not expect that "open democratic institutions based on the force of law" or grotesque attempts at imperial greatness in the past will suddenly, for no reason, see you as a person worthy of the status of a first world citizen or provide social elevation to the neo-aristocratic stratum with access to the corresponding level of consumption.
In the best case, it will remain "as is" with a tendency to constant deterioration in living conditions. It's called a dead end with very ghostly glimpses at the end of the tunnel. And there's only one way out of it, no matter how much you want to banish that thought.