Hong Kong and continental China are main partners in Russian chip business now. They plays the role of Electronics Department in the USSR (bust of the former Head of Electronics Department Alexander Ivanovich Shokin at the photo).China's companies was the real bosses at the 1990-2000. Their demands was vital for Russian chip production industry: their great volume requests plays main role.
What they needs now? Chips. chips, chips. For watches, RFID cards readers, calculators, LCD modules. All that can be doing with 0.5-1um CMOS digital technology but in chips without packages (no IC's).
