U.S. tech giant Intel engaged in high-level talks with Russian officials to get around tough encryption import laws. The issue was a deal-breaker for Intel, which told Russian officials that unless it could quickly import encrypted development kit hardware, it would have to lay off more than 200 engineers and move R&D work to India or China. Intel spokesman: “We didn’t threaten anyone. This is all routine stuff when it comes to dealing with governments around the world” Russia agreed to streamline the process in 2006 but had not done much to fix the problem.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126161/wikileaks–threat-to-outsource-russian-jobs.html