Historically, a significant part of Russian (and the USSR as a whole) programmers work in offshore programming. Why this happened is quite understandable - in the 90s, local companies writing their commercial products could be counted almost on the fingers of one hand.

At the same time, the difference in __ average programmers ’salaries at that time between Russia and Western countries was so significant that only oil production in a fountain way could be compared with the export of man-hours. In principle, this suited everyone - foreign customers received the product for less money, the developers here - they received much more money than engineers of other specializations. However, the wage gap has now been significantly reduced.

I would like to understand: how stable is this situation in the long term? It all depends on what percentage of programmers work in the interests of foreign companies.
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Finally the survey itself

If you are not working as a programmer, please do not vote, but just see the results.

If you work as a programmer in a Russian branch of a foreign company (“development center” as it is sometimes called), and write software that this company uses worldwide or sells - this is also considered “in the interests of a foreign company”.

If you work for yourself, on your projects and live in Russia or the countries of the former USSR - it means “in the interests of domestic customers”.

If you are freelancing, depending on where you get most of your orders.

By domestic customers - we mean all countries of the former USSR.