"Thank God": The West is pushing Russian IT specialists back to Russia

Western IT- companies are firing Russian-speaking specialists, which is why they are returning to Russia.

This was stated by the CEO of Positive Technologies Denis Baranov at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and entrepreneurs, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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"The dynamics that we are seeing this year, right now, are very interesting. Due to the pressure on Russian specialists abroad... The cybersecurity industry is still security, no matter how you look at it, so we see that some unfriendly countries are starting to slowly get rid of Russian-speaking specialists who have worked for decades in the same company Google, Amazon and others.

Now we see the return of these people to Russia, specifically to our company.“This is a very interesting effect that we did not expect in 2022, for example,” Baranov said.

The Russian president noted that the West would be better off continuing to be as short-sighted as it is.

"And this once again emphasizes that those who do this are short-sighted people. They solve immediate political problems instead of thinking about the future, thinking about the real state of their companies.

I have already given examples when in the West they took everything from one company – and there they built a huge administrative building based on our orders, the lights were on from morning till night. Now the lights are on only on the first three or four floors. And we have already built our own building. And what’s more, we are already capturing international markets for this type of activity,” Putin said.

"That's why Thank God they are such short-sighted peopleIt's bad that they treat our country like this. It's bad because it's not a fair attitude.

It wasn't us who organized the coup d'etat in Ukraine, you understand? We were told all the time what was needed - democracy, elections... They carried out a coup d'etat, and that's it, as if that's how it should be. A bloody one at that. And they went on to suppress Donbass and so on, to kill people from helicopters and planes. It's just ridiculous. They forced us to simply do what we are doing now. And they are trying to make us guilty of it," the president added.