Indeed it does. Google tried to flirt with the regime back a decade ago and be say at minimum "too conciliatory" with them. Now what came out of that?

After they did few token delisting of opposition websites, Russian three letter service felt they finally snapped, and that they can have their own way with them.

They had to evacuate their most valuable cadres out of there to Switzerland, by giving Swiss canton an eye watering sum for a carte-blanche from their immigration office to resettle former Russian office staff there.

Armed men in black now frequent their office on Balchug. Now, with suitcases stuffed with god knows what on them.

I believe that the way Government contracts work does not allow non-citizens (perhaps non-residents?) to work on them.

(at least directly)

Citizen, background checks, and for DoD, secret accreditation. So the chance of a Russian employee working on a DoD project are non-existent.

You know, MDA had non-citizens working on American spy sats for quite some time... Just look at their linkedins. I don't think a man who graduated Peking university on a full time program, can become a Canadian/US citizen the next year, when he joined MDA.

Quite a lot of those guys are on work permits in Canada.