The State Department has become involved in an American IT company whose programmers work in Crimea
Moscow - Simferopol, March 4 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Several Crimean branches of companies from the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland were first re-registered under Russian laws, but now, due to sanctions, one of them moved its programmers from Crimea to the Krasnodar Territory.
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The American Oysterlabs, for which the Crimean programmers worked for two years, reported that it had transported its programmers from Crimea to the Krasnodar Territory, despite the fact that on January 8, 2015 it was re-registered on Rubtsova Street in Simferopol under Russian laws as Oysterlabs LLC.
The owner of the Crimean subsidiary is the American company Above the Clouds (Delaware), it also owns an IT developer from the USA - Oysterlabs. The Crimean branch of Oysterlabs was opened back in 2013.
A representative of the Russian office of Oysterlabs, Elina Shtanchaeva, in a conversation with Izvestia, noted that “the company is experiencing some difficulties in the United States in connection with the work of the Crimean office, but the work continues.”
“Since we are engaged in outsourcing, American partners do not want to work with anyone in Crimea due to sanctions, so we moved to the Krasnodar region in February and will open both a new office and a new legal entity there,” admitted the general director of Oysterlabs LLC » Dmitry Zubarovsky. “The team of programmers from the Crimean office will move to the Krasnodar region, no one was abandoned.”
Oysterlabs develops applications and IT solutions for mobile platforms. Thus, the company also developed an application for Nelson Mandela’s Legacy of Hope charity foundation. The founder and head of the American head office of Oysterlabs is serial entrepreneur and startupper Raj Amin. In addition to working at Oysterlabs, Amin heads the startup Mana Health, which provides the ability to aggregate data about clinic patients in one place so that doctors can understand who to treat.
At the US State Department "Izvestia" reported that experts from this foreign policy department will look into the question of why Oysterlabs registered in Crimea.
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