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It's Sklyarov. Personally, if I were him, I wouldn't be going anywhere near the USA again.

What was the specific geopolitics here? That tweet didn’t give any real info.

Positive Technologies has had sanctions imposed on them by the US Government

Well, that doesn’t sound very positive!

Thanks

Why?

It was involved in SolarWind attack.

[citation needed]

From the US Treasury press release announcing the sanctions:

> Positive Technologies is a Russian IT security firm that supports Russian Government clients, including the FSB. Positive Technologies provides computer network security solutions to Russian businesses, foreign governments, and international companies and hosts large-scale conventions that are used as recruiting events for the FSB and GRU.

I'd guess that amongst tens of thousands of submissions their paper didn't stand out as much as it should have.