From the creators of a fiction novel "Russia's economy will get stronger under sanctions".
Russia couldn't do shit before sanctions, couldn't build up it's economy (other than selling hydrocarbons); couldn't establish this magic union with China, Iran, or Eritrea; couldn't make neighboring countries love it. But now at war and walled off from the rest of the world, yeah it will do all those things very successfully LOL. Well, the good news is that you'll run out of glue you're sniffing at some point.
Russia is not a world power anymore. It doesn't have a "sphere of influence". It has a bunch of territories and nations that it plundered over the centuries. It has a gnome dictator at the head of a corrupt government and a dysfunctional army. I'm struggling to think of anything else of any significance. Natural resources won't get it far - there are a plenty of resource-rich countries in the world that have become absolute shitholes for the same reasons why Russia will join their ranks (e.g. Venezuela).
What do you think Russia was doing with the free trade that they were engaged in around the world? The major reason the US pushed against Russia through Ukraine was because Russia was having so much success, that they were breaking up the USD as the world currency. And the Ukraine was a handy US satellite to use at the moment.
Now that the sanctions have backfired, have made Russia stronger than ever faster than ever, and have ignited nations around the world to join against the US (BRICS), the only thing that is stopping Russia is time. Just a little more time and Russia will break the US stranglehold.
This doesn't mean that Russia will rule. They will only rule in the break-up of the USD. It's happening as we post. Every nation will use whatever they see as an advantage for enriching themselves. And so far, the US is only giving other nations reason to drop the USD.
