I live in Russia. It’s not expensive to buy things(Well, now eur/usd to rub is twice as expensive and buying gadgets, stuff from amazon and etc is twice as expensive, but that happened only a year ago) at all, especially games for PC. In steam we have crazy low prices(Considering current usd->rub rate its funny to convert actually). For example Witcher 3 is $20, Fallout 4 is $33, but it is the highest price you could get in steam(Excluding some special cases). Usually we have AAA games either in $12 - $18 prace range and for indie price tag is something like $5(Excluding tons of .5$-2$ games). But it’s not fair comparison because a year ago these prices in $ were 2 times “higher” due to adequate usd->rub rate so I will give you comparison using average cup of coffee price! Indie game is around 1,3 cups of good coffee or 2 cups of mediocre and it was like this for a years now, no matter what usd->rub rate is.
As I said, it’s not expensive to buy things(If you don’t need to rent 
If you need to rent monthly payment for 1room flat is around average salary and you’re screwed :D) , however in Russian mentality it’s much cooler to get cool stuff without actually paying for it(I’m not talking about stealing and all that stuff). Trick the system, so to speak, is considered good, no matter who is the system. People don’t understand that you’re paying to support something you like, people just think that they lose money they could spend on something else and that’s not cool!