the income share of the top quintile increased from in to in and it remains at this level the income share of the bottom quintile dropped from almost in to in and has been around that level ever since annex a table a the relative poverty series presented in figure is based on data from the russian longitudinal monitoring survey box and denisova notwithstanding the recent decline in poverty at the relative poverty rate in the russian federation as based on rlms data is high compared with the oecd average of in oecd a