all of your of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department of goofy institute gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of the nineteen ninety's our economy faced a dramatic arc evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the government i mean they were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived could not have maintained our scientific potential without international collaboration. two guns founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking elusive start of conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering an economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century. not just in the collapsing socialist bloc the west german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder incubate was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space fallen by the wayside and the constant shi