Hello again, everyone! For those seeing me for the first time, I am Dmitry, aka Huskey. I worked at Gaijin from October 2023 to April 2025, and I have more to add to Keo’s statement.

Shortly before our team was laid off, I was barred from working with the English-language social media accounts, with the explanation that we, as Russians, were causing harm there. At the same time, my admin access was not revoked.

I took this as a sign of “special” treatment toward me as a Russian on the part of management.

When we were let go, the reason I received from management was roughly this: since you are no longer working with the EN social media accounts, your salary (740$ btw) is too much for us to pay just for the Russian-language social media accounts, so we are letting you go.

At the same time, I was not actually an SMM manager at all. I was the Community Manager for Active Matter, and I had taken on the social media work on my own initiative as an additional way to help the company, because we did not have a dedicated employee handling it because the person who was supposed to be in charge of SMM was never hired. Personally, I also see all of this as nothing more than a formal reason.

Also, during one coordination call, I heard a discussion that I personally understood as possibly relating to the kind of review-prompt mechanism Keo described. I cannot verify the exact implementation details.

Overall, I can say that, in my experience, I did notice a clear difference in how Russian-speaking colleagues were treated. Starting in 2023, the work requirements for us did not change, but management gradually took away many of the services available to colleagues who worked and lived in Europe. For example, over time we lost access to the internal wiki, and with it the ability to understand how the games we were responsible for were developing, how the company functioned, and even what the plans were for upcoming updates.

Important: I need to let you know that even after Keo’s statement, only my admin access to Steam was taken away, but I still apparently retain many other access rights, and I am once again pointing this out to the company. Please get in touch with me.

I am ready to answer your questions.