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HTP Residency or an EOR? Choosing How to Enter the Belarus Market in 2026
You’ve decided Belarus is where your next engineers, or your next tech operation, should be. Good instinct — the talent…
Repatriating Profits from an HTP Company: Dividends, Withholding, and Currency Rules for Foreign Owners
You built a profitable company inside Belarus’s Hi-Tech Park (HTP). The tax regime did its job, profit accumulated, and now…
The 2026 State of Belarus IT Salaries: Real Benchmarks by Role and Seniority
You’ve found a strong developer in Minsk. The CV checks out, the English is good, and the rate they mentioned…
Sanctions, Banking, and Paying Belarusian Salaries in 2026: A Practical Guide for Foreign Companies
Belarus remains one of the most interesting IT-talent markets in the region. The engineering depth is real, salaries are competitive,…
Non-Compete Clauses in Belarus: What Foreign Employers Can Actually Enforce Beyond an NDA
Here’s the phone call. A senior engineer on your Belarusian team has just handed in notice — and next Monday…
Time-Zone Strategy for Distributed Teams: Making Belarus Work Alongside US and EU Offices
The question isn’t whether you can work with a team in Belarus. Tens of thousands of engineers in Minsk have…
Severance Pay in Belarus: Scenarios, Real Numbers, and Who Actually Pays
It’s a call no founder looks forward to. The round didn’t close, or the project got cut, or a hire…
Source Code, IP, and Data Residency in Belarus: Where Your Assets Actually Live
You’ve found a brilliant developer in Minsk. The rate works, the timezone works, the code is clean. Then someone on…
EOR for Stealth-Mode and Pre-Launch Startups: Hiring in Belarus Before You Can Reveal the Company Name
You raised the seed round. You want to hire two senior engineers in Minsk starting next week. But the parent…
Workplace Injury and Occupational Health in Belarus: A Foreign Employer’s Primer
One of your Minsk-based developers messages Slack on a Tuesday morning: they slipped getting coffee during a client call and…
Acquisition Exits and EOR Employees: What Happens to Your Belarusian Team in an M&A
You’ve signed the LOI. Diligence starts Monday. Your team of twelve engineers in Minsk shows up on your org chart,…
Employee Monitoring and Surveillance in Belarus: What’s Legal for Foreign Employers
You’ve hired five developers in Minsk. Your global IT policy runs an activity tracker on every corporate laptop, screenshots land…
EOR Insurance and Liability Coverage Explained: What You’re Actually Protected Against
A CFO forwarded us a Slack thread last quarter. His head of legal had asked what sounded like a simple…
Performance Improvement Plans in Belarus: What’s Actually Enforceable Under Local Labor Law
A US COO wrote to us a couple of months back with a two-line brief. Put Alexei on a 30-day…
Multi-Country EOR Strategy: When Belarus + 2–3 Markets Makes Sense (and When It Doesn’t)
Building a distributed team across multiple countries sounds strategic. In practice, most companies that add markets to their Employer of…
Belarusian IT Terminations: Why Your Home Playbook Doesn’t Translate
Every foreign employer who’s ever ended a Belarusian employment contract has started at roughly the same place. They take the…
Overtime, Night Work, and Weekend Pay Multipliers in Belarus IT Contracts
Ask five global EOR companies what overtime looks like for a Belarusian engineer, and you’ll get five different answers. “200%…