I have heard that Russia has serious engineering problems with their space program because they neglected it after the end of communism for more than one decade. They now have a lot of really old engineers who are going into retirement and a lot of really young engineers who don’t have all the experience they need. Some go even so far and attribute problems Russia had in recent years and failed missions (like Fobos-Grunt which was really supposed to put Russia back on the map) to that.
Yes, everything has been broken since USSR dissolved, unfortunately
Clarification: he was a rocket designer, not an interior decorator.
I, for one, have always thought rockets would look better with deep blue curtains on their windows, and the television behind the cockpit against a lime green wall.