(Russian here). I so much understand you brother (or sister). We've got an even harder wave of prohibitive laws and the local IT industry has been brought to its knees. Companies have been leaving, people have been leaving. I haven't seen any appealing job openings for close to two years. I myself am thinking of emigrating, even thought about France, but now I'm not sure it was such a good idea.

>> So much potential is wasted... That's the most tragic thing indeed. You can import food, clothes, cars and so on but you can't import talent. When it goes, it's final.