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Director of Paratype Ltd Supporting Annexation of Ukraine by Russia
- app4soft 4y agoA little bit more context: On September 28, 2022 in a chat Anna Yakupova (Director of Paratype Ltd.) celebrated further annexation of Ukrainian territories by Russia.[0] Same day, as a reply to spreading of critics Paratype Inc. tweeted that this was "out of context" quote of Anna Yakupova's private chat.[1] According chat screen its clear that Anna Yakupova chatted with colleges Aleksandr Laguta and Artem Geller (last two collaborating with Paratype Ltd. for Russian government projects) — all of them greeted annexation.[2] Few day later, on October 1, 2022 Andrey Skaldin (President of Paratype Inc.) decided to tweet a sorry tweet, but without clear explanation of the future of doing business with Paratype Ltd.[3] P.S. In 2016 Paratype Ltd., the main digital type foundry in Russia, helped Kremlin to replace Monotype's Times New Roman® fonts (for Russia state developed Astra Linux) due to sanctions revealed after invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea since 2014.[4,5] [0] https://twitter.com/rasskazov/status/1575125976585060352 https://twitter.com/rasskazov/status/1575125976585060352 [1] https://twitter.com/ParaTypeNews/status/1575160510542233603 https://twitter.com/ParaTypeNews/status/1575160510542233603 [2] https://twitter.com/thedenoff/status/1575215232393281541 https://twitter.com/thedenoff/status/1575215232393281541 [3] https://twitter.com/ParaTypeNews/status/1576296598228738048 https://twitter.com/ParaTypeNews/status/1576296598228738048 [4] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-fonts-times-new-roman/28174276.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-fonts-times-new-rom... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_Fonts#PT_Astra_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_Fonts#PT_Astra_fonts