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Industry News 15.04.2022 16:40

15.04.2022 16:40
Evgeny Obedkov

GitHub starts blocking accounts of Russian devs and companies,
including sanctioned banks

Published by
Evgeny Obedkov

Tags:

  * GitHub,
  * Russia

GitHub has started suspending accounts of Russia-registered users in
accordance with the latest full blocking sanctions placed by the US.
This affected not only large banks, but individual developers as
well.

The news was reported on IT blog Habr, with user nicknamed Veratam
noting that accounts of Russia's financial institutions like Sber and
Alfa Bank have been blocked.

A few Russian users also pointed out that their personal accounts
were suspended, saying that they haven't received any response from
GitHub support yet. It is worth noting that when blocking a corporate
account, access to repositories remains for a couple of hours, while
personal accounts are suspended immediately.

    -\_(tsu)_/- pic.twitter.com/wMz9rZv1NS

    -- Sergey Bobrov (@Black2Fan) April 15, 2022

According to Habr, some users also received notifications from
GitHub, reading that their accounts might be operated from a
sanctioned region. In this case, a developer can file an appeal to
check whether a company is located in North Korea, Crimea, Cuba,
Iran, and Syria.

[github-let]

On April 6, the US Department of Treasury placed full blocking
sanctions on Alfa Bank and Sberbank, freezing their assets and
prohibiting US persons from doing business with them.

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