It's not "huge" problems. Russian state of art radhard design is mostly on par with what exists in Europe and just a couple of generations behind the USA. Most of production is obviously abroad, and nobody actually cares, as it involves much less money than Huawei case)
Also, this site was chosen for publishing because it was easy and because they actually give you some audience. Getting the same attention at Medium would be much harder, and a copy of this text, which I posted at LinkedIn, got something like 60 views. LinkedIn has a great publication editor, by the way. If you have an advice on some better place where I could publish scipop texts about microchips, that would be really appreciated.