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they aren't a russian company. they were founded in the czech republic... they may have been a country that was aligned ideologically with the ussr during the cold war but that's not the same as being russian.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/12/06/update-on-jetbrai...

> The Czech Republic is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the OECD, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Visegrád Group.

The company is not czech. Russians are an overwhelming majority of the employees.

A country that was aligned ideologically with USSR is an understatement. They were under occupation as a satellite state. Those people did not sign up for communism in 1945 willingly.

Czech

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains

Majority of employees are russians including the C level

It was founded by russian nationals but the company is formally czech and is more connected to the west than to Russia.

The majority of employees and C-level are russians. It is a Russian company.