Russian education has suffered a lot of reforms aimed at making it more similar to Western model and it was pretty underfunded for 30 years, so it is not really great, just okay-ish.
It's not what it used to be, but it's still far better than what we see in the west. For example, every time there are math or programming olympiads, Russia tends to dominate them. So, a country of around 143 million is able to consistently beat a billion people from the western education system.
Russian education has suffered a lot of reforms aimed at making it more similar to Western model and it was pretty underfunded for 30 years, so it is not really great, just okay-ish.
It's not what it used to be, but it's still far better than what we see in the west. For example, every time there are math or programming olympiads, Russia tends to dominate them. So, a country of around 143 million is able to consistently beat a billion people from the western education system.