[thriftwy]

Or at least some cosmopolitain eastern locality such as Dubai; the one which would naturally meet the 'unprecedented invasion of an independent nation' accusations with a lot of laughs.

Having said that, I can imagine that there would be (already is a) proxy brain drain from Russia to Dubai but catering to the Western customers.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Dubai is a stationary Potemkin village. There is nothing there for technical people to do outside of ill-conceived construction projects for princelings.