First of all, you don’t understand how sanctions work. That’s simple:
1. your country withdraw forces – sanctions are eased
2. your country restores Ukrainian integrity. Punish war criminals and pay reparations to cover Ukrainian losses – sanctions removed.
Sanctions are designed to force populace and politicians to realize what benefits of free world they lost.
I am sorry but I’m going to be bit emotional.
So basically you say to help IT specialists, but Visa/MC works same way for everyone. If you are IT specialist (and you have actual skills) you can find a Job abroad. You are also allowed to move $10k in cash abroad by new Russian law. That can be enough for start. And you can use Crypto for more. Binace is still operational.
You can ask for an asylum in other country and then open account in local bank and use Visa/MC than. That’s not convenient and so on, but if you are dedicated to leave Russia you can!
But you know who can’t? Male populace of Ukraine. They aren’t allowed to leave country.
Many IT professionals: Works from their basements, took arms in hands, help becoming volunteers(paying from own pockets). But you ask to make exceptions to Russian IT guys.
And by the way IT is quite Wealthy in CIS countries, but you write “scarce savings” which is laughable.
Your people are responsible for your leader. But you want to have some ease-off for few days, but people of Ukraine don’t have those days. If you want to change it – remove Putin from charge.
Purchasing two flight tickets out of Russia right now, using rubles that have now devalued 50%, will cost a monthly salary of a senior developer. Booking hotel for two weeks abroad will cost the same. Half of all the flights out were now shut down.
Those who are lucky to still keep their jobs (many people are not) — those are competing the clock as their chances to get out reduce every single minute. People who lost jobs and have no liquid money investments are totally f*d.
I closely know at least two people who have relatives in Ukrain and now have no resources to support them.
I have several close friends there, and I know that the only way I can support them, once chance presents itself, is from abroad. Because in Russia right now I would get 20 years of imprisonment for that according to recently accepted laws.
The West gave (and continues to give) Putin money in exchange for his oil and gas, which allowed him to arrange Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and completely destroy the opposition in Russia with this money. The West completely ignored all of this (when compared with the current sanctions). And now the West has decided that only the Russians are to blame for this, and it is Russians civilians alone who must fight Putin and his forces, created with the West money, even after the destruction of the opposition. But the West is completely innocent. OK.
Sanctions are designed to force populace and politicians to realize what benefits of free world they lost.
I am sorry but I’m going to be bit emotional.
So basically you say to help IT specialists, but Visa/MC works same way for everyone. If you are IT specialist (and you have actual skills) you can find a Job abroad. You are also allowed to move $10k in cash abroad by new Russian law. That can be enough for start. And you can use Crypto for more. Binace is still operational. You can ask for an asylum in other country and then open account in local bank and use Visa/MC than. That’s not convenient and so on, but if you are dedicated to leave Russia you can! But you know who can’t? Male populace of Ukraine. They aren’t allowed to leave country.
Many IT professionals: Works from their basements, took arms in hands, help becoming volunteers(paying from own pockets). But you ask to make exceptions to Russian IT guys. And by the way IT is quite Wealthy in CIS countries, but you write “scarce savings” which is laughable.
Your people are responsible for your leader. But you want to have some ease-off for few days, but people of Ukraine don’t have those days. If you want to change it – remove Putin from charge.