{"id":142414,"date":"2025-06-12T18:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/142414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"new-htp-chief-says-programmers-are-welcome-back-unless-they-face-serious-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/142414\/","title":{"rendered":"New HTP chief says programmers are welcome back unless they face \u201cserious restrictions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ryabova-radio1-by-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(radio1.by)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 12, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Hanna Rabava, head of the Minsk-based High-Tech Park (HTP), has told the state-run television channel <em>Belarus 1<\/em> that the park welcomes exiled IT specialists who do not face \u201cany serious restrictions\u201d to come back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By \u201cserious restrictions\u201d she alluded to politically-motivated criminal persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, we would talk about how ready these people are to return, how ready they are to work by our country\u2019s rules and guidelines. And to what extent we can offer them terms and conditions to fully satisfy their ambitions. So, this is a two-way street,\u201d Rabava said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing the IT community\u2019s high mobility, the official said patriotism is still important, and it would be wrong to claim that IT professionals \u201ccannot appreciate the benefits of their homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two weeks ago, media reported that the Belarusian government appointed Rabava, a former deputy communications and IT minister, to lead the country\u2019s IT hub. She replaced Alaksandar Bazana\u016d, a former KGB officer who had held this position since 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus&#8217; IT industry is recovering after a slump caused by the relocation of companies abroad amid political reprisals and sanctions imposed on the country for its complicity in Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">\u0141uka\u0161enka grants 50 percent of pardon requests \u00ad official\u00a0<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">June 12, Pozirk. Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka has granted 50 percent of petitions for pardon in the first five months of 2025, said Volha \u010cuprys, his administration\u2019s chief legal officer who chairs a commission on pardons and releases. Before 2023, the average &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/142412\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12, Pozirk. Hanna Rabava, head of the Minsk-based High-Tech Park (HTP), has told the state-run television channel Belarus 1 that the park welcomes exiled IT specialists who do not face \u201cany serious restrictions\u201d to come back home. By \u201cserious restrictions\u201d she alluded to politically-motivated criminal persecution. \u201cHere, we would talk about how ready these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":142401,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-142414","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New HTP chief says programmers are welcome back unless they face \u201cserious restrictions\u201d | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 12, Pozirk. 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