Russia's tech industry has spent the past decade building something distinct from Silicon Valley: startup cities, homegrown social networks, and face-recognition algorithms, all operating under a government that watches the wires closely. Journalist Ashlee Vance travels the country for Bloomberg's Hello World series to see how it works, starting with Dmitry Grishin, the Mail.Ru co-founder who has moved from internet business into robotics, funding drone-delivery projects and the hardware behind Star Wars' BB-8. Vance also meets founders building artificial intelligence and cybersecurity startups who talk openly about operating inside Russia's legal restrictions rather than around them. The film traces the political turn behind those restrictions to 2012, when the internet became the main platform for protests against Vladimir Putin's re-election and the Kremlin responded by cracking down on opposition sites. Hackers and cybersecurity firms appear describing the balancing act of serving global clients while sometimes answering to government demands. Vance plays interviewer throughout, letting his subjects explain their own compromises rather than narrating a verdict on them.