Tech workers abandoning Russia

 Newsmax:

Russian tech workers have been leaving their country in droves over the last month, coinciding with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Citing a report from BDNews24.com, back in late March, a Russian tech-industry trade group estimated between 50,000 and 70,000 tech workers had fled Russia; and that number could potentially repeat in April.

Such a move could be devastating for Russia on two fronts: A substantial decline in hiring, cultivating, and keeping highly proficient tech workers, and the ability to grow Russia's delicate economy for the long term.

"Most Russian tech workers are part of the global market. Either they work for global companies or they are tech entrepreneurs trying to build new companies for the global market," Konstantin Siniushin recently said through an interpreter from his office in Riga, according to reports. "So they are leaving the country."

Siniushin, a venture capitalist in Russia, recently filled two charter planes' worth of tech workers attempting to flee Russia.

According to BDNews24, the planes departed from Moscow, carrying tech workers from cities such as Perm, Ekaterinburg, and St. Petersburg.

All told, the planes transferred roughly 300 software developers, entrepreneurs, and other technology specialists out of the country, including 30 Russian workers from startups backed by Siniushin.
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They are not the only ones fleeing Russia.  Putin's war in Ukraine is stirring an exit for those who can. 

See, also:

Quinnipiac Poll: 82 Percent of Americans Say Putin Is a War Criminal

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