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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by smokey_circles on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:21AM (#28564045)
Putin has attacked a good many political dissidents on foreign soil, is it really such an unbelievable claim?

> likely result in many other western IT firms closing their offices and leaving

That's just naive. Russia and China are huge markets. Apple and Google are not going anywhere unless their hands are forced.

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by wwtrv on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:26AM (#28564104)
It’s not an all or nothing outcome. And I’m not talking about Google or Apple leaving. There are many companies which have dev offices in Russia, they would be less likely to hire new employees in Russia if they believed they can be arbitrarily imprisoned for random reasons.

Just look at what’s happening in Belarus in the last year (IT companies started fleeing to neighboring countries)

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