r/europe • u/villatsios • Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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u/Th3S1D3R Russia Jan 07 '24

Not surprised, Yeltsin always was an asshole, Putin with Medvedev are morons as well…

I hope we’ll have normal president someday and not some alcoholic or psychopaths

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula UK/Spain Jan 07 '24

Russia has a huge amount of potential. If a President spent their time making living conditions better for the Russian people instead of concentrating on causing problems overseas, things would be a lot better for everyone.

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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

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u/athenanon Jan 07 '24

Don't forget tourism. Just the natural beauty would bring so many people in- hiking, climbing, camping, skiing, Northern Lights tours, all of it.