Discussion about Russia on EEVBlog :3
That pics are from new plants in Zelenograd which is in 40 minutes from me, and all those pcb houses are for
1) military needs, yep, our military guys trying to start over after USSR fail.
2) contract production in HUGE values, like 10k boards minimum, absolutely NO stuff for hobbyist.
3) production for companies that sponsored pcb house.
so, nothing new.
also it is a "public" pictures, theres also plenty of stuff bought from Germany and other countries in other pcb houses, for example, our manufacturer Angstrem, which is at Zelenograd too, bought all stuff from closing AMD 90nm asic house for their needs.
also checkout our only working pcb&asic house -
http://milandr.ru/en/ , some pictures of house can be found here -
http://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fblogs%2Fhardware%2F134083%2Fthey recently bought ARM Core in Verilog and making ARM & memory ICs that can operate under extreme conditions and usual ICs too.