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by spitfire 441 days ago
Jetbrains is Russian. They relocated to Czech to wash their face.
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I honestly do not know about this -- wasn't it based in Kiev at first?
According to Wikipedia “ JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ Software,[9][10] was founded in 2000 in Prague by three Russian software developers:”

My understanding is that they had the Czech business location with Russian developers so they had a clean public face.

I’d believe you if you insisted on Kiev based too, I don’t know anything first hand.