An employee is seen in Wargaming's branch Game Stream company in Minsk, Belarus March 18, 2016. To match Insight BELARUS-TECH/ REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
MINSK: World of Tanks, one of the five most popular PC videogames in Europe and the United States with 100 million players joining virtual battles in World War II-era tanks, started in a kitchen in the capital of Belarus.
In a country better known for its Soviet-era collectivised farming and run by President Alexander Lukashenko, seen by some as "Europe's last dictator", the software industry is thriving thanks to highly-educated and low-cost engineers.
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