I rechecked and it seems that there may be some restrictions on gun types that individual can own but rifles & shotguns can be owned and used for sports, hunting, and for self-defense but this source is from 2012 so the laws may have changed. Here in Europe Russia and many other East European countries are considered countries with more loose gun laws but they're obviously still not the USA which is at its own league.

https://davekopel.org/Russian/russian-federation-arms-laws.pdf

I rechecked and it seems that there may be some restrictions on gun types that individual can own but rifles & shotguns can be owned and used for sports, hunting, and for self-defense but this source is from 2012 so the laws may have changed.

https://davekopel.org/Russian/russian-federation-arms-laws.pdf