From Popbitch:
RIP Yeltsin. The best quote on his presidency came
from his prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin,
“We hoped for the best, but things turned out as usual.”
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raincoaster 
I’m probably the ninety-seventh person to mention this, but that’s a common expression in Russia, articulating a self-deprecatory streak in Russian identity. cf “Russia exists as a lesson for other countries in what not to do”. Nice to see it applied to epoch-shattering events, though…
That seems to be the only kind Russia have had in the last century or so. Have you noticed, no matter what Russians are discussing (“please remember to pick up the dry-cleaning and some milk on the way home” etc) it always sounds like they’re discussing the futility of existence? And no matter what the Finns are discussing, it sounds like an upbeat segment from Sesame Street.