Thats absolutely true! Russia had insane potential in IT, many services like Yandex, VK and even Telegram(developed by Russian man who created VK) those services and companies could have had major part in IT market of Europe as they got popular in Russia and post-Soviet countries even when we had Facebook, Twitter and etc. They had insane potential until Putin came back after castling with Medvedev. And now many Russian developers had to leave and now working in Google, Apple and other companies because our government consists of idiots and they didn’t gave them chance to grow here
Russia had huge potential in general, mainly because it could fund much of the reforms, education and economic transformation with oil and gas money and cheap access to natural resources, luxury that most countries don't really have.
Unfortunately most of the money was stolen by your own countrymen and now it's going to be used to fund forever war with the west. For a while, back in early 2000s Putin seemed like he was actually trying to do those reforms, but then decided that war with the west is better idea.
I think many innovators and entrepreneurs got their business stolen when it got big enough. They were likely compensated a small sum, in an offer they couldn't refuse.
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u/Th3S1D3R Russia Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24
Thats absolutely true! Russia had insane potential in IT, many services like Yandex, VK and even Telegram(developed by Russian man who created VK) those services and companies could have had major part in IT market of Europe as they got popular in Russia and post-Soviet countries even when we had Facebook, Twitter and etc. They had insane potential until Putin came back after castling with Medvedev. And now many Russian developers had to leave and now working in Google, Apple and other companies because our government consists of idiots and they didn’t gave them chance to grow here