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by _fat_santa 1566 days ago
Realistically I don't think there is a chance of that happening. Jetbrains was based out of Moscow (they are a Russian company IIRC) but now they have offices around the globe. If Russia tied doing this, JetBrains would immediately cut off access to those offices/workers and probably sound the alarm to the media on what is going on.
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gentleman11 1566 days ago
The Chinese government sometimes imprisons family members of people living abroad to force those abroad to do things. Why would a monster like putin shy away from that? JetBrains can’t really stop it, 1500/1900 of their staff are Russian (according to the other posts here). The founders are Russian. Many will have vulnerable family in Russia
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rafram 1566 days ago
Never based out of Moscow, never a Russian company. The founders are Russian but the company has always been based in Prague, although a lot of the employees work from Russia.
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sam_lowry_ 1566 days ago
Based on relative size of Russian and Prague offices, around 1500 out of total 1900 employees worked in Russia.
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isbvhodnvemrwvn 1566 days ago
And core employees are Russian, with many having relocated at some point in the past; here are most of the people from this list: https://www.jetbrains.com/company/people/

- CEO is a Russian who lives in Cyprus now: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-dmitriev-05b581/

- Cofounder is Russian, probably lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-kipyatkov-13569590/?ori...

- CEO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximshafirov/

- CAO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yury-belyaev-a1608b5a/

- SVP of investments is Russian, lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaivanov/

- development lead is Russian, lives in Germany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximmossienko/

Kotlin was named after an island in St. Petersburg archipelago. Kotlin project lead is Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/relizarov/

Kotlin core contributors seem to be mostly Russian: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors

So it definitely isn't a decision what won't have any effect on the company.

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