Russia being a 'western' minded country but still not integrated into the US sphere of influence plays the tech game better than China and EU. Facebook and Google dominate the US-led world but In Russia you see Yandex and Vkontakte/Odnoklassniki dominating the field. You see Yandex Taxi instead of Uber (now merged) and Kaspersky in security context. Putin stressed importance of AI to dominate the future of the world, IMHO, In the upcoming years we'll see more international battles towards AI, Space and robotics.
Very interesting times ahead.