Intel had several R&D facilities in Russia. At this point, any CS students/junior programmes are between a rock and a hard place - on one side, there are now much less work locally - many companies left the market, the rest of them are not recruiting as many Juniors/Interns as they did. Yandex, one of the biggest ones, freezed hiring altogether.
On the other side, they can't go work somewhere else. If you are not all that experienced, no foreign companies would be interested in sponsoring a visa for you. Some companies just stopped working with Russians: for instance, several days ago Google cancelled all summer internships for Russian citizens, and added rules to ban them from Google Summer of code.
I knew that their withdrawal from the market would eventually happen, but I really did hope that the R&D would stay open.
On the other side, they can't go work somewhere else. If you are not all that experienced, no foreign companies would be interested in sponsoring a visa for you. Some companies just stopped working with Russians: for instance, several days ago Google cancelled all summer internships for Russian citizens, and added rules to ban them from Google Summer of code.
I knew that their withdrawal from the market would eventually happen, but I really did hope that the R&D would stay open.