Eastern Europe created its own Silicon Valley with 1M developers

"Gartner estimates there are over one million IT professionals in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, with one-quarter (250,000) working for consulting or outsourcing firms.[...] It can take decades to create a technology hub as strong as Eastern Europe’s and it has become an essential digital link in the business needs of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, but what is being called “digital geopolitics” now threatens its accomplishments."