Information technology in Russia

[3] Russian IT companies were started in the early 1990s by founders with an academic background seeking to find a place in the new market economy.

[4] In the 1990s, companies such as Vist began assembling computers out of foreign-made components, targeting small businesses and families who could not afford foreign brands like IBM and Compaq.

[8] In 1999 MCST developed the Elbrus 2000 processor, which was initially hyped as an Itanium killer,[9] but the project was hampered by a chronic lack of funding.

[14] In the aftermath of the War in Donbass and the annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian government banned a number of Russian IT companies from conducting business in the country.

[15] In June 2015 the Russian parliament passed a law to establish a preference system for software developed in Russia.