US tightens sanctions against Russia in the IT sector
Several leading IT companies and services have announced that they are leaving the Russian market or introducing new restrictions for Russian users.
This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
The stricter restrictions came into effect on September 12.
The new sanctions include:
- Google has blocked the registration of new accounts using Russian numbers and deprived Russian bloggers of the opportunity to earn income through the AdSense contextual advertising service.
- Software development company Atlassian and its Jira, Trello, and Confluence services announced their complete withdrawal from the Russian market.
- The Notion service, which was used to organize work and manage projects, has become unavailable in Russia.
- Miro, a collaboration platform, will no longer serve Russian and Belarusian accounts.
- Microsoft has started disconnecting Russian users from its cloud services.
- Corporate messenger Slack is leaving the Russian market, discontinuing the corporate messenger service.
- CAD and Autodesk systems left Russia, while SAP and Oracle left the country's ERP market.
The new sanctions will also prohibit U.S. companies from providing IT consulting, design, support, and cloud services to any legal entities in Russia.
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