Trend of 2014: Game Insight and the others
Some things are very hard to expect or anticipate. One year ago nobody probably could not expect one trend that will occur here in 2014.
Yesterday in local bussiness newspaper I found short message: "Flazm" - Russian IT company specializing in game development - is moving to Lithuania. "Flazm" earlier operated in the city of Magnitogorsk and they were only 4 active guys. Among the reasons: the desire to overcome the isolation (in Magnitogorsk they were the single people engaged in the game development), very bad ecology in Magnitogorsk, etc. May be this event would be unimportant if they weren't 7th Russian IT company in just 3 last months moving their office and stuff to Lithuania.
The first were such big company as "Game Insight". Few years ago they began to think moving their head office out of Moscow and Russia. Initially their prefered point was Stockholm but someone from Lithuanian governmental agencies were able to convince them to move their headquarters to Vilnius. And Russian IT company "Global Insight" became Lithuanian company "Global Insight". Together with management more than 200 developers, artits and other stuff moved from such cities as Moscow, S. Petersburg, Kiev, Novosibirsk to Vilnius.
What happened next is separate story. Probably this is so called domino effect or lips-to-lips diplomacy effect. But just in 3 months several other IT companies (still most of them engaged in the game development but in recent weeks not only) moved from Russia to LIthuania. "Charlie Oscar" with Sergey Klimov, „Planner5D“, „4Talk“, „Kula-tech“, „Dev2Dev“ moved their offices and relocated their activities to Lithuania. It seems that till the New Year at least 10-12 more Russian IT companies will relocate to this country ... One year ago nobody could expect such trend and the desire of Russian IT professionals to seek to move their bussinesses to Lithuania...
Anyway people and authorities here are happy: as one of them said "here are arriving gifted, highly - creative, open-minded, independent, highly intelligent people. Any country would be happy to accept them".
Yesterday in local bussiness newspaper I found short message: "Flazm" - Russian IT company specializing in game development - is moving to Lithuania. "Flazm" earlier operated in the city of Magnitogorsk and they were only 4 active guys. Among the reasons: the desire to overcome the isolation (in Magnitogorsk they were the single people engaged in the game development), very bad ecology in Magnitogorsk, etc. May be this event would be unimportant if they weren't 7th Russian IT company in just 3 last months moving their office and stuff to Lithuania.
The first were such big company as "Game Insight". Few years ago they began to think moving their head office out of Moscow and Russia. Initially their prefered point was Stockholm but someone from Lithuanian governmental agencies were able to convince them to move their headquarters to Vilnius. And Russian IT company "Global Insight" became Lithuanian company "Global Insight". Together with management more than 200 developers, artits and other stuff moved from such cities as Moscow, S. Petersburg, Kiev, Novosibirsk to Vilnius.
What happened next is separate story. Probably this is so called domino effect or lips-to-lips diplomacy effect. But just in 3 months several other IT companies (still most of them engaged in the game development but in recent weeks not only) moved from Russia to LIthuania. "Charlie Oscar" with Sergey Klimov, „Planner5D“, „4Talk“, „Kula-tech“, „Dev2Dev“ moved their offices and relocated their activities to Lithuania. It seems that till the New Year at least 10-12 more Russian IT companies will relocate to this country ... One year ago nobody could expect such trend and the desire of Russian IT professionals to seek to move their bussinesses to Lithuania...
Anyway people and authorities here are happy: as one of them said "here are arriving gifted, highly - creative, open-minded, independent, highly intelligent people. Any country would be happy to accept them".