For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Some months later, the announcement of the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of men in late September triggered another wave of departures.In total, around 100,000 IT specialists are abroad,” the minister for digital development, Maksut Shadayev, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.According to him, 80 percent of those who left continue to work for Russian companies remotely.The minister did not give a reason for the departures but recommended not imposing “strict restrictions” on remote work to avoid “pushing them to seek work in foreign companies.”The majority of Russians who left have arrived in neighboring countries, such as Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan, but also Turkey and the United Arab Emirates."