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The political motivation is transparent, there is nothing insane about protecting your ill-gotten wealth - in classical Eastern European style, the technical feasibility of this project is of little importance to the politicians whose whims are promoting it.

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Ill-gotten wealth ? AFAIK Russia gets its wealth mostly from oil.

And that wealth goes straight into the pockets of corrupt officials instead of the common people, or at least infrastructure.

But then, if they make their own phone OS it does go to infrastructure, or doesn't it?

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