[sharikous]

Russians are a highly educated population that produces excellent engineers. But Iranians too are in this position.

But they are sanctioned off from the technological advanced world and they can't even import modern chips. Add to that that the corruption and lack of freedom are impediments to building a thriving economy.

I think we will see a huge brain drain towards the West. Germany had top notch excellences too, before the Nazis took power.

[spaceman_2020]

I was pretty impressed with Yandex when I was in Russia. The maps were far better and the image translations faster and more accurate than Google. Maybe its because they have access to better local data, but it definitely felt like a well-engineered product suite.