The Western European and American establishment has always been profitable to work in the post-Soviet market due to the fact that the latter had practically no other alternatives for investing in its real sector. In fact, only imported technologies ensured the production of competitive products, which were then sold in the same markets from which the equipment was supplied. The usual "push-button" mode is turnkey: instructions, a button and a service life of up to 10 years.
All the time we used to live on expensive oil and gas, without attaching importance to reinvesting excess profits in what we have always depended, and that, in fact, is not available today. The level of wages and its high share in the cost of final products have always made our products manufactured according to imported technologies that are attractive to foreign markets, even taking into account the logistics that was laid down in price (they were taken there, to bring it back later). Like at one time Chinese products, the price of which was determined more by labor costs than by quality and economies of scale.
And now, having nothing particularly new and, to a large extent, having lost almost all that fuse of past Soviet technologies, when the country achieved significant success in the field of industrialization, scientific and technological progress and, in particular, in the development of heavy and defense industries, we have to rely only on China - that it will help us in everything.