Investing in Russia? Better hire body guards and hunker down (venturebeat.com)
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alavrik Aug 2, 2010 | on: Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA? | context

Here's a good article and the HN discussion about Russia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409194

Basically, you would probably want to stay away from it. You can find decent engineers there but everything else is terrible for business: corruption, taxes, banks, cost of living, visas, etc.

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