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Russia is ultimately a kleptocracy with the real money made from resource extraction - oil, natural gas, metal, etc. From that point of view any other industry
by PLenz 4y ago
Russia is ultimately a kleptocracy with the real money made from resource extraction - oil, natural gas, metal, etc. From that point of view any other industry is extranious because it doesn't add to the oligarchs bottom line.
- darthrupert 4y agoThey had significant intellectual capital until Putin seemingly single-handedly destroyed it all. The universities of Soviet Union were top notch and Russia retained a lot of that. As a testament to that, over the last 2 decades we had plenty of immigrants from and outsourcing to people in Russia and ex-Soviet countries, and as a rule, those people are great programmers.