It is said that the EU is formulating a possible ban on providing cloud services to Russia as part of the new sanctions against the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, and pointed out that the measure is technically complex If it is launched, it is not clear how the EU ban will affect Russia, because the top cloud providers in Europe are American companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
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Last week, the EU adopted a package of new sanctions against Russia and Belarus, including an oil embargo, restrictive measures against Russian banks and a ban on providing advisory services to Moscow.
The initial version of the press release on the sanctions scheme issued by the European Council on June 3 also mentioned the prohibition of cloud services, but this reference was later modified and deleted. The sanctions did not appear in the legal text published in the official journal of the European Union.
