If I was to guess, I would say that this is tied to the article on HN a few weeks back about how the Russians want their own version of Silicon Valley. Rather

If I was to guess, I would say that this is tied to the article on HN a few weeks back about how the Russians want their own version of Silicon Valley. Rather than sending their president to San Francisco to see how he "gets the web", they would do a lot better by sorting out their corruption problems and improving civil liberties (these are the words of Russian commenters on that article, not me hating :-) )