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No, not due to fear. It's just somewhat easier to sell their products using a EU based legal entity. Another example would be Yandex, registered in the Nethelands.

JetBrains main dev offices are in St Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk.




The Czech Republic wasn’t part of the EU in 2000.


Well, it was "a bit" closer to EU than Russia :)


I've never met JetBrains dev who wasn't Russian, and I've met a few (all really smart).




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