Crisis in Russian It Sector: Russia Lacks About 170 Thousand It Specialists

There is an outflow of specialists because of sanctions, in total about 170 thousand IT-sphere workers are missing, Deputy Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Igor Zubov said. This statement contradicts the statement made by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko at SPIEF. He said that most of the IT workers who left had returned for one reason or another.

At the same time, the Russian State Duma adopted an emergency law on 15 June that makes it as easy as possible for foreign IT specialists and their family members to obtain a residence permit. Such a decision directly points to the acute shortage of personnel.