Gates appeals to the Russians

According to Reuters, Gates told the Microsoft Business Forum in Moscow that Russia needed to keep investing in tech skills to supply a shortage in the West.

King Bill said that developed countries were not graduating as many IT students as they were in the past. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia's education system became a cheap talent pool for the West.

Now it has reached the point that Russia loses more than 700,000 of its population to emigration, although a fair bit of that was also to disease and alcoholism. Gates wants them to keep training IT students to their previous standards. He didn't say anything about exporting more alcoholics. µ

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