I've already addressed that in one of my previous posts - my friend works in Huawei RRI (Russia Research Institute) Moscow and they are actively hiring with Chinese employees leaving\arriving as usual. All other R&D institutes (e.g. in Novosibirsk) are also fully operational and hiring. There are no plans to close or even freeze\shrink them, so this is bs.On the contrary it says in the article:
"One person with knowledge of the matter says that the company has stopped taking orders and is preparing to close its corporate office in Russia, which deals with telecommunications and networking equipment. The Chinese employees of the Russian office and part of the Russian specialists will leave the territory of Russia, and the rest will be on vacation."
"In fact, Huawei stopped the conclusion of new contracts with Russian telecom operators for the supply of network and server equipment."
"For now, there is no change regarding the consumer goods segment, which includes tablets, laptops, smartphones and other smart gadgets."
The source is Forbes, so I don't fully believe it though.
The part about halting new contracts on telecom equipment is true. However, as far as I know, the main reason is that a lot of currently sold solutions use American components and hence are subject to sanctions, so Huawei is searching for alternatives and will resume trading when these issues are handled.