When there’s no shame in ‘Made in Russia’
Why Russia’s ‘homegrown’ laptop, flash drive, and other tech isn’t half as bad as it seems Photo: mcst.ru Last week, on May 25, the Russian and Ukrainian media leapt at the news that “the first Russian laptop” had finally arrived on the market. Priced at 150,000 rubles (almost $3,000) and looking more like a coffin than a modern laptop, readers in both countries had a big laugh, until learning later that the story was a fake.