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by throwaway0x7E6 1284 days ago
>The founder is Russian

who had his billion dollar business (vk.com) stolen by the russian government, left the country and acquired cirizenship elsewhere

it's a pretty good indicator that he is not a putin's stooge

>most of the engineering team is Russian. The founder visits Russia regularly. I assume their non-resident Russian engineers visit Russia too.Most of their user base is Russian.

is Microsoft an Indian company? the CEO is Indian, half the engineers are Indian, yada yada yada

>And they have an agreement with the Russian government not to be blocked if they cooperate on combatting terrorism.

I got the impression that it was just a way out for the russian government to give up on trying to block it, after they have repeatedly failed to do so