Great document of post-soviet Russia

I first saw this film somewhere in the late 1990s and back then I didn't quite notice it. But now, as watched it again, I realized what a good historical document this film is. A document of Russia not long after Soviet Union had broken down and the whole society was in chaos. Notice, in one scene there is a car standing without any wheels - probably implying that the wheels had been stolen. Also notice how people use two currencies. Sometimes when buying something they talk about huge sums of money - then they talk about roubles, for instance a CD costs some 50,000 roubles. But sometimes they talk about much smaller sums - then it's dollars, the hard currency. But on top of that, the fine for travelling without a ticket is only 7 roubles, and the two immigrant crooks don't even bother to pay that sum - implying the low status and weakness of government structures.