Friday, December 20
“Tech Workers Flee Belarus as IT Haven Takes Authoritarian Turn,”
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
“Tech Workers Flee Belarus as IT Haven Takes Authoritarian Turn,” headlines a Bloomberg story about IT companies starting to move out of Minsk after a month of internet shutoffs and police raids on such IT companies as PandaDoc, Yandex NV, Uber, and Wargaming.net. Since opening 15 years ago, Hi-Tech Park on the eastern edge of Minsk has grown to nearly 700 companies, employing 60,000 people and earning $2 billion annually in exports.
