Most screenshots here are from first pages. Most good looking sites have distinctively looking first pages and much cleaner internal pages with more text, less clutter and unrelated images. Therefore it might be biased.
You also have to remember this is a showcase, and sites with a lot of visuals tend to make better showcases simply because they're more fun to look at even if they're not easier or even more fun to actually use.
Good show case. But if you will take a look at the sites of most of big Russian banks, social networks and corporations, you will discover Lebedev's label at the bottom of the page. His studio is the only 1st tier player - just consider the list of customers and revenue figures.
And it is not an promotion, is a sad and unpleasant fact.
Sure, younger generations of designers already emerging, but it is almost impossible to secure money in Russia nowadays, without being involved in corruption.
