[throwaway122kk]

Had

Name any political, cultural, economic, literature, sports achievement in last 30 years to come out of Russia. That's right Internet trolls which are an evolution on kgbs psyops

[ibobev]

Kotlin[1] programming language?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)

[avmich]

Sure, and Nginx as well. JetBrains are in Eastern Europe, Nginx is sold to West, wonder why?

Or you can list graphene - a really nice, to say mildly, achievement. Guess why it wasn't announced from Russia but from UK?

Russia is being seriously held back by the autocracy. The whole world suffers to a degree, which explains animosity... Of course Russia suffers the most, but such things are hard to change. Ukraine and Belarus going the long and troublesome road now, while we here keep disagreements about good and evil.

[Mediterraneo10]

> Name any political, cultural, economic, literature, sports achievement in last 30 years to come out of Russia.

Russia remains prominent in the literary world. Contemporary authors like Sorokin and Ulitskaya are widely translated into other languages. If anything Russia's decline in those other respects makes its authors more competitive internationally, because "Novelist X captures the gritty reality of an oppressive state" has been since the Soviet era a dependable angle to market books to foreign readers.

[strictnein]

"KGB psyops"

Wish people would stop trying to play pretend RU experts.

If you want details on actual cough "Psyops", one can read a book like Active Measures by Thomas Rid.

[rasz]

Try reverse engineering or data recovery sometime.

[jldugger]

nginx?

[jetzzz]

And IntelliJ IDEA of course, which I think many HN visitors are using in one form or another. This still doesn't change the original point that Putin regime has been very damaging to Russia.

[notsureaboutpg]

Russians have won 3 Nobel prizes in Physics since 2000. I think that's a cultural/economic achievement

[thrwway34]

We're those Russians working in Russia?