Russian naval ambition versus current construction

Is Russian shipbuilding pursuing overgrown prestige ships instead of useful smaller vessels?

Russia talks big, but its active construction suggests a more limited and competent light blue-water navy built around practical frigates and LHDs.

Russian rhetoric about very large prestige projects differs from the ships its yards are actually producing. Successive frigate families and current LHD construction point toward a practical force with real reach. The result is described as a competent light blue-water navy rather than the deep-ocean super-fleet implied by grander announcements. That smaller force could still assemble enough global strike capacity to cause serious trouble, so rejecting the rhetoric does not mean dismissing the ships being built.