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Re:Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet [video] by nx11x on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:03AM (#13106296)
Who says the government is missing out? Russian economy as a whole might be missing out, because qualified labor is leaving, but the state probably gets their pick of top graduates. Who do you think runs Kremlin's hacking, spying, and bot programmes? I imagine it's not the straight C students. Same goes for critical industries like defense and o&g.
Re:Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet [video] by trhway on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:27PM (#13107160)
>Same goes for critical industries like defense and o&g.

not much. In O&G all the complicated drilling is done by foreign companies who have the tech (while, yes, accounting IT in Russian O&G can employ the top grads :). In defense it is even worse - Russia still can't build a stealth plane, i.e. they were able to produce a body, the easiest part, can be calculated on computers with basic scientific knowledge, while the radar and engine require a well developed technological base and thus still not reachable for Russia.