First of all Stoli and Stolichnaya are the same thing. The former is a nickname. Further the Stoli vodka available outside of Russia is produced in Riga, Latvia[1] by SPI Group. Latvia is a member of both the EU and NATO. Boycotting this spirit would be as misguided as it is misinformed. Please don't post stuff like this without at least doing a tiny bit of research first.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/ga...

Could you explain the motivation for avoiding these? Are they run by the government? Is there a risk that they will be? If not, why exactly should I have a problem with Russian software developers?

The Russian fascist state runs mostly on taxpayer money. Hence, as an individual, you can contribute by not funding them.

Less money spent on Russian products = less money going to modern Nazis. It's that simple.

Most people don't really care, but if you do, there are plenty of non-Russian alternatives (which should be quite obvious).

I don’t think anyone needs any prodding to stop using Kaspersky.

What about my brand new Lada!

Yandex was the only one for me. I blocked it on all the hosts files under my control and my pihole network dns

WinRAR/rarlabs is a German company.

The developer and his brother are from Russia. Also WinRAR is free in Russia.

> is free in Russia. I just visited the Russian version https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=4 from Russia. There is still "Buy WinRAR" button. Although anyone can get an infinite trial version (like Sublime Text), some Russian companies buy it just in case, according to some random comments in threads that joke about mythical buyers of WinRAR.

Also I found rumors that the developer (Eugene Roshal) moved to Germany or the USA. No info found about his brother who is the WinRAR's copyright holder, which is what matters.

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