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Russia should set up a reverse offer than we can see which political philosophy people prefer in practice.

Dma54rhs 5y ago
They already have long time ago. Offering land in Russia for people living in former occupied areas to return, so at least economically they've lost the battle. Guess ideological push is not that big if a factor either.
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- johnny22 5y ago
  I think they meant an offer for folks living in places like the US or western europe.
ogurechny 5y ago
It has already been announced, all of a sudden, in the first week of the war. It had all the signs of being a creation of old bureaucrats who had really outdated personal values. So they promised near 0% mortgage plans and exemption from military service for “IT specialists”, fast track for foreign workers' permits, cut or reduced taxes, grants, and subsidized loans for IT companies. Oh, and “IT specialist” is someone who has a diploma to prove it (cue the sarcastic trumpet effect). Another joke is that university education usually makes you a useless reserve lieutenant in whom military is not interested anyway, and juniors with college degrees who do get drafted right after they get them are certainly not getting any offers from international companies. Well, neither are local ones going to give you any additional points for having a degree, to be honest. So they expect people to shut up and work on supporting government goals in order to keep better living standard than “regular people”, like they themselves did in the Soviet era (yeah, at the time when just having stylish foreign clothes meant you were well connected, and above “regular people”). It's hard to imagine that someone with a decent IT career can see that as an opportunity. However, there is enough swindling types to ride the “we are constantly reducing our dependence on imported technology” propaganda wave who try to make contacts with relevant officials in order to transfigure government budgets into personal wealth. There have been many companies relabeling Chinese hardware after making minimal changes, and there is going to be more. So, among other things, it was announced that we need “our own Github”, and they vaguely described it as some kind of “central source of open source”. Man, even I can make “my own Github”, and maybe even a second one if I'm not feeling lazy. That announcement only resulted in people scratching their heads and guessing whether Github would be blocked, and require additional network configuration to be accessed.

They already have long time ago. Offering land in Russia for people living in former occupied areas to return, so at least economically they've lost the battle. Guess ideological push is not that big if a factor either.

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johnny22 5y ago
I think they meant an offer for folks living in places like the US or western europe.

ogurechny 5y ago

It has already been announced, all of a sudden, in the first week of the war. It had all the signs of being a creation of old bureaucrats who had really outdated personal values. So they promised near 0% mortgage plans and exemption from military service for “IT specialists”, fast track for foreign workers' permits, cut or reduced taxes, grants, and subsidized loans for IT companies. Oh, and “IT specialist” is someone who has a diploma to prove it (cue the sarcastic trumpet effect). Another joke is that university education usually makes you a useless reserve lieutenant in whom military is not interested anyway, and juniors with college degrees who do get drafted right after they get them are certainly not getting any offers from international companies. Well, neither are local ones going to give you any additional points for having a degree, to be honest. So they expect people to shut up and work on supporting government goals in order to keep better living standard than “regular people”, like they themselves did in the Soviet era (yeah, at the time when just having stylish foreign clothes meant you were well connected, and above “regular people”). It's hard to imagine that someone with a decent IT career can see that as an opportunity. However, there is enough swindling types to ride the “we are constantly reducing our dependence on imported technology” propaganda wave who try to make contacts with relevant officials in order to transfigure government budgets into personal wealth. There have been many companies relabeling Chinese hardware after making minimal changes, and there is going to be more. So, among other things, it was announced that we need “our own Github”, and they vaguely described it as some kind of “central source of open source”. Man, even I can make “my own Github”, and maybe even a second one if I'm not feeling lazy. That announcement only resulted in people scratching their heads and guessing whether Github would be blocked, and require additional network configuration to be accessed.