They 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.
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They 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.