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I disagree. They take over your software company, and put you in jail. Sure they do not get your IP, but you loose it. I will hazard a guess that the softwar

• cbnotfromthere 6y ago
  The comment you're replying to implies that the key persons of that company AND the legal entity are outside Belarus. Otherwise, as you clearly wrote, they would be at the mercy of whatever happens in / with Belarus.
• anovikov 6y ago
  Except owners have foreign passports and never come to Belarus since many years. Only some middle managers are in, and key team is usually in the U.S. or in Cyprus, too.
• maratc 6y ago
  If you had a manufacturing plant bringing $10M, the government takes over your plant, so now they get $10M. If you had a bank bringing $10M, the government takes over your bank, so now they get $10M. If you had a property-holding company bringing $10M, the government takes over your company and your properties, so now they get $10M. But if you had a software company bringing $10M, and the government takes over your software company and puts everyone in jail, they now get nothing. Moreover, where they had, say, $100k in taxes previously, they have $0 in taxes now. What you describe is possible, e.g. out of spite, but it does not make any financial sense. Everyone in Belarus is "very careful to stay entirely out of politics". Still banks and plants get appropriated. Software companies do not.