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Also in other articles, it was not clear why those individuals were targeted, and it seemed it could be just because of the passport. (It seems, from other sou
by mdp2021 2y ago
Also in other articles, it was not clear why those individuals were targeted, and it seemed it could be just because of the passport.
(It seems, from other sources, that it is because of their employer.)
- sam_lowry_ 2y agoSerge Semin who wrote the goodbye letter [1] worked for Baikal Electronics, a military contractor. However, Baikal Electronics has been bancrupt for half a year, and he says he worked on the kernel as a volunteer lately. I think Chinese COTS suppliers are more used by contemporary Russian army, but none sanctions them. I can't really judge for the others, but in his case, the exclusion was either too late or totally unjustified. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225