Russia’s re-emergence cannot be dampened furthermore by Cold War containment strategies, or either by useless economic sanctions. Vladmir Putin’s energy dealings with China and others, news of Aeroflot’s low-cost airline, and the Russia Internet Entrepreneurship Forum of late, these and other moves foretell of an all out economic competition the west may well lose. There’s a secret weapon in Russia’s new battle for coming to be mainstream media has overlooked, the real Russian innovator, the ordinary and extraordinary citizen there.