Russia was always in the game, ignorant slut. They' ve been in the game for CENTURIES, many centuries, when your ancestors were living in caves and huts and eating without utensils.
Russia is the OLD WORLD, with all its glorious past, minus the decades of communism. The Russian Empire is in their genes, dipshit.
And Obama had nothing to do with anything about Russia's status in the world.
All that said, the future is unclear with this dipshit you put into office.