Regardless, you won't be able to pay for any of these services at the next billing period so they will be terminated one way or another.
Back up your stuff, move your service while you can or you risk losing everything, this is not a drill.
Understand that the level at which this is currently playing out means that it could very well happen that governments will sanction businesses in the West that continue to work with and do business with Russian entities, businesses or individuals.
Some may decide to do this unilaterally for reasons all their own, some may give you warnings, some won't. Contrary to how these things normally play out the speed with which sanctions are being enacted and their severity should not be underestimated. Effectively threatening the world with nuclear annihilation has put the pressure on in a way that I have never seen before, leading to a degree of unity that is unique and which will speed up the process of ordering and implementing these sanctions to unprecedented levels.
Use the time while you have it.
If you are a private individual from a Western country get out while you can, even if that means a detour via Dubai or China. This could very well get ugly and you don't want to get caught in a country where lots of people are being made to believe that you and/or your country of origin are the cause for their hardship. Waiting it out is a risk you probably can not afford. Some Western governments have already ordered their citizens out of Russia.
I hope sincerely that all of this will be behind us soon and in a way that minimizes bloodshed on both sides, but I especially wish that for the defenders, who had no agency at all.
Fair warning though, some of these things look rather shady so use some common sense and be careful with your local legislation (See MrDisposables response)
edit: To elaborate on the last part see what happened in Kazakhstan recently. Their outage lasted luckily only shortly but you might not have to think about only western sanction but also Russias distaste for VPNs as well as the possibility for having your internet cut. Sure Kazakhstan is a lot smaller in terms of internet infrastructure, but there didnt seem to have been a way around their shutdown. You are then only left with satellite as well as maybe coverage from the neighboring countries. Both getting really expensive with a devaluing currency and at high threat of sanctions.
JetBrains, s.r.o., producers of IntelliJ (and a bunch of other IDEs such as Android Studio, PhpStorm and CLion) are incorporated in the Czech Republic, but in practice, all the development is done in Russia.
Break this law if you can. Weigh the probability of being prosecuted in the mass of others breaking these laws versus the probability of facing real hardship from the economic sanctions. Doubly true if you have a family you're taking care of.
For the banking, is that transactions out of the country or any transaction, so also from money you get from out of Russia? I was more looking through the sanction perspective
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Mind you, thanks to the rise of remote working - and virtual office spaces, I guess, begrudgingly, although I'm confident those are aimed at extroverts that need to see people and wave their arms and stuff - living in a city is no longer a requirement for working at companies you want to.
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This is an important topic. Some EU countries like Czechia are even blocking visas for Russian citizens now and I think this will be a trend in other EU countries.
AFAIK, since Russia is the aggressor here and is (on paper) a democratic country (but not really), then its citizens are not considered yet victims of the war, and are most likely not falling under the rules of refugee status, unless they can clearly prove that the Russian government is a threat to their life, which would be a bit difficult (like if you're in political opposition to Putin).
I honestly don't envy the Russian people now. They're forced into a conflict they don't want to be in, and are suffering the consequences.
One out of every two Russians (50%) says it would be right, while only a quarter (25%) say it would be wrong. The other quarter (25%) are unsure, according to the survey.
But the poll also found that more Russians think it would be wrong than right to use military force “to reunite Russia and Ukraine” – two countries with a long and complicated history of being intertwined.
It’s a close call, but 43% of Russians said use of military force against Ukraine to join it to Russia would be wrong, while 36% said it would be right. (The rest of the respondents said they didn’t know if it would be right or wrong.)
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-uk...
Ukrainians are also forced into a conflict they don't want. Unfortunately, it's up to both the Ukrainians and Russians to do something about it, not Ukrainians alone.
The Ukrainians clearly made their decision. Now it's up to the Russian people to make theirs.
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This is why I find the recent cancellation of many public Russian individuals concerning. We should be offering them citizenship (I exaggerate!), not shaming and dropping them. Rossophobia against normal Russian citizens is counterproductive.
Thread: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/14979877099686051...
The current refugee crisis is going to be a challenge for Europe. I think most countries would rather spend their resourcing on helping the direct victims of the war rather than Russians fleeing from the consequences of the sanctions.
Worth mentioning that even though Binance was founded by a Chinese guy and is banned in the US, they're saying they'll cooperate with sanctions. So if your savings are in Binance, maybe move them to a wallet where you hold the keys, not some server overseas.
Something you should be doing anyways by default, war or no war.
Self-custody is one of the pillar of what makes crypto interesting.
Exchanges, as the name implies is a place where you move your crypto temporarily to perform an exchange. Once that is done, you get your funds out.
If you leave your crypto (or fiat for that matter) on an exchange, what happens next (confiscation, hack, exchange owner runs with the money, etc ...) is the result of you ignoring this basic tenet:
Not your keys, not your coins.
#НетВойне #РоссияНеМолчи
Europeans pretend to care and sanction everything except for the oil and gas that is funding that war.
There should always be a difference between government and people.
All these sanctions are harming normal people, essentially economic carpet bombing.
The result would be exploding prices, shortages and rationing of gas, potentially even power cuts at night or reduced availability of power to industry.
But the EU countries could absolutely do it if they really wanted to.
But this is also a big escalation.
Energy exports are the lifeline of the Russian economy. Canada just banned crude oil imports from Russia yesterday. Without a delay Russia just stopped diplomatic relations with the country and withdrew all diplomats.
It's basically a declaration of war to them, because if it spreads and even countries like China theoretically were forced to join in, they would really collapse.
And if Russia is pushed I to a corner there's no telling what they might do.
When Trump criticized German dependency on gas and was slowing the construction Nord Stream 2 he was criticized and laughed at.
Which is why the west fucked up in Syria and Russia got a great deal. Now Syria blocks gas pipeline options from Qatar at Russia's behest.
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I emmigrated in 2019 to work with an international startup in Montenegro: and ended up being ostracized and harassed by my manager from another country (won't point fingers to avoid unnecesary nationalism) on a cultural/ethnical basis; was forced to leave after a year and a half.
After that, in 2021, I was offered to come to US by a fellow colleague with Ukranian roots: worker visas were denied to Russian citizens at that point, and most of the embassies were either closed or worked in a limited capacity (also due to pandemic).
My last attempt (again in 2021) was to apply for PhD in EPHE institute of France (I have an MS degree in a programme related to medical tech, computer vision, and brain-computer interfaces): I got nothing in response.
Since then I have been holed up in my hometown. Another friend of mine proposed some time ago to come to Vietnam: but with the entire world openly opposed to my nation, I doubt that will ever happen.
Well, that's hardly surprising, and it's not because you're Russian, in France it's hard to get any institution to ever reply you by mail, let alone if (I guess) you wrote to them in English.
If you want to work or do a PhD in France (in English) I can offer some support and pointers for my region, you can hit me up at the email on my profile.
[1] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/southeast-asia...
Most people definitely are not opposed to Russia, they are oblivious to international events.
I think most people understand that this is Putin's war, not the war of the "Russian people". And many people I have spoken to in various demonstration against the war (in Germany), protested against Putin, not Russia. I did not see a single banner with "Stop Russia" - all referred directly to Putin.
They've sanctions that would even make it impossible for normal people to do a bank transfer in their "new" country.
First flying to the other half, or taking land transport (at least for the border crossing part).
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I disagree completely. Putin's decisions aren't the decisions of everyday Russians. And the Ukranian conflict is more complicated than the single-side narratives you are fed. Giving people advice is the morally right thing to do.
Every conflict has sides and perspectives. We should put a certain veil of "I dont care about your side anymore" once military force is used. Otherwise we promote military force as a valid response.
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