In the end only kindness matters...

You're right, maybe village life in our countries is pretty the same. But the key difference is that Russia is an industrial country and Georgia is an agricultural country. They produce more than 50% of their GDP by poking in the soil. Russia gets here only 4.7%, and USA around 3%, I think. By the way, their GDP per capita is 2.5 times less than ours. That difference is bigger than the difference between the USA and Russia, for instance.