They underestimate the need to have people on the ground from their own organization, as well as contacts from the Russian world to prepare the way. So there's a lot of frustration because they don't feel it's going as quickly as they expected. A lot of people and denominations are learning the hard way that it's going to take two to three years or more before they really have people who know the situation well enough to minister effectively. The mission field is open but it's very difficult for people who don't know that culture. It's really through some contact they've made.
People are always full of promises about what they can provide.
Sometimes they come through with the promises, but a lot of people haven't established the relationships of trust and knowledge about who they're dealing with, so things do not always turn out the way the parties expect. Let me give you an example. A translator needs a special vocabulary to know and understand theological and Christian discussion. Secular translators might be very good, but it will take some time for them to get up to speed as to what these terms mean. And Protestants who are capable of translating are in short supply.