What was 1990s Russia like?

A crumbling economy followed by a financial crisis, mafia and mobster wars everywhere, coup d'etats and people working several jobs just to get by. Sounds like a failed state, right? Well, that was Russia in 90s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this is how we remember the 1990s - a time known as the era of relative peace and prosperity for the rest of the world.