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All this is achieved by perpetrator through fear and manipulation. There is a reason why societies keep ending in this kind of situation, and this reason is not a lack of will to “stop the abuse”.
Human mind has dozens of biases, those who exploit them and add physical abuse to the mix very often end up on top. In USSR this exploitation was made into an art, especially at earlier times (30s and 40s).
Maybe we should make a table with a no. of victims per country so we can distribute blame more fairly? Can also probably automate and gamify this. Good thing most leaders who made these decisions are gone and we can shift anger to actual citizen instead.
Regarding portfolio - exchange has been frozen indefinitely, depending on measures taken by central bank nobody can predict what would happen to the stock price. They have also blocked most ways to move money out of the country. Possible economic default is also a possibility.
Part of my family (wife’s brother, her parents) are still in Moscow, with very dire outlook on financial side. Our relocation is the only feasible way to keep them out of poverty.
People who look for remote work need it to stay somewhere _outside_ of Russia and work remotely from there. Relocation is no easy feat, at least to do it quickly. Especially with half of the flights out of Russia being shut down.
Every once in a while the train stopped, and each stop they asked random people to step forward. These people were executed in front of others. However, majority of passenger have arrived to the final destination (prison camp) alive.
Those who made it alive were never the same, they were broken, psychologically.
Their families too. My grand-grand mother hang herself shortly after his arrest. My grandmother was deeply traumatized for the rest of her life by that (she was a little girl who found her mother hanging from the chandelier).
But you are right, people who stay will need help as well.
We had no real election over the last 18 years, even the one on 2000 was fueled by fear and manipulated people to vote for a certain candidate. It was all downhill from there.
We had constitution revised in a major way twice just by popular vote, with all edits being made to keep people in power staying in power and destroying institutions.
There is a huge Russian-speaking community in Ukraine. Most non-regional IT communities in Telegram have lots of Ukrainian people, many relocated back and forth between two countries in the past.
Long story short: this post has no aim to focus on helping only Russians, if you have resources to support any kind of IT relocation regardless of nationality, please step forward.
You need to understand the scale. Just today Yandex (one of the largest IT companies in Russia, think “Russian Google”) has announced[0] they are at risk of default. That’s 10 000 people, and Yandex is not the only large IT company.
Companies like EPAM also have plans to evacuate people, that’s north of 30k people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia and it is not clear how many layoffs there will be.