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Dear Reader,
India is well known for its great IT-experts and has
been the leader already for a very long time in offering
opportunities in IT-offshoring. This business model
workedverywellforallinvolved.However,othercountries
are catching up, and some of
them provide a similar or even
more favorable environment.
Russian speaking countries
offer excellent conditions
for IT-projects. This generally
concernsnotonlyprogrammers,
but also other experts, such
as project managers in IT,
who are widely regarded
to be highly qualified and
good team players. We are
also hearing more opinions
expressing high satisfaction with the communication
capabilities of IT-teams in Russian speaking countries.
Indeed, language skills, intercultural experience and
understanding of Western needs are well developed
in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. In fact, of the Russian
speaking counties, these three in particular have the
most developed IT-landscape. ForWestern Europeans,
these countries are easily accessible and thus for them
we can truly speak about IT-nearshoring rather than
IT-offshoring.
This issue of RUSSIA BRIEFING shows how you can
benefit from these advantages. It is not only Russia that
is trying hard to attract more investors for localization
and production set up in order to create new jobs,
Belarus and Ukraine are doing the same. All three
countries are taking different approaches and, so
far, have had limited success.
However, the IT-industry can be
a real job creationmachine and
all involved can benefit.
T h e p r o f e s s i o n a l s o f
SCHNEIDER GROUP in Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Minsk and
Kyiv can assist you in taking
advantageoftheseopportunities.
They will show you how to
set up such IT-nearshoring
structures, will find the right
people for you, and will make
sure you benefit from advantages like tax incentive
and other support programs.
I wish your business and IT-projects all the best and
hope you find this current issue of RUSSIA BRIEFING
very useful for your plans.
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Kind regards,
Ulf Schnelder
Managing Partner
SCHNEIDER GROUP
Ulf Schneider
Managing Partner
SCHNEIDER GROUP
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