Russia, frankly, is not a country worthy of existing. They have, for the most part, been a huge anchor on the world and caused innumerable amounts of misery.
There is very little redeeming qualities of russia, and my life has not been made better by anything that has come out of that cold wasteland.
I suppose you would prefer all of Central Asia be illiterate.
You don't seem the type to be fond of the Soviet Union.
Your point?
That the nation responsible for putting Central Asian literacy nearly on par with the modern West isn't the contemporary Russian Federation, but the
Soviet Union.