why
i don't think these folks should be treated nicely. it's nice for western industry to leave severance packages and treat them humanely for the reputation of western business, but ... they are essentially sycophants, russian polite society living the dream of high salary among impoverished countrymen. their racist drunk countrymen look to them to flame their fantasy of a "good life" being possible inside russia. for this reason they all stay complacent and complicit.