Looks like they've already removed their Russian locations from the contact page on their website.

Compare the current page [1] with the archived one [2] from three days ago

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/#headquarters-int...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220309000203/https://www.jetbr...

They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices.

5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.

Does anyone know how that works ? I'd be open to seeing what is the internal communication. Will the Russian employees be in furlough ? Will they cut access ? How is the business supposed to move forward ?

If Russia wanted to double down on cyber attacks, kidnapping some senior dev families and forcing them to compromise JetBrains could be something they might try. I don’t even know what else to use for c++ dev, JetBrains tools are so far ahead of everyone else. Visual studio is so unpleasant to use and needs resharper to be usable

Russia looks set to remove trademark protection and has already removed patent protection from JetBrains (along with basically the entire west) - could be related to why now rather than earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...

It sounds like there are activities that they did not suspend in Russia and that may be more telling than what they have suspended.

I wonder how many Russian developers they manage to move out? If it's not a lot then the business must be impactly a lot considering the number of Russian employees.

Wondering how many laid off?