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In November 2022 a group led by Yermak and McFaul proposed, for the first time, a separate package of IT sanctions against Russia.
According to Andriy Yermak’s Protection Group, there were two objectives. First, to cut off Russia’s access as much as possible to IT and technologies that sustain its war machine – from the production of missiles, guidance systems, and heavy equipment to the supporting infrastructure. Second, to restrict access to technologies Russia uses for cyberattacks, propaganda, and information warfare.
Sustained work and ongoing consultations produced results. From 12 September 2024 the U.S. strengthened IT-related sanctions. Against that backdrop, major tech services began to further scale back operations with Russia: Notion, Slack, Miro, Microsoft are just some of the companies that started winding down cooperation with the aggressor.
This significantly complicated Russia’s access to modern technologies, but it did not fully solve the problem. It is still necessary to close remaining avenues for sanctions evasion and to pressure companies whose technologies continue to aid the Russian economy, war machine, and information war.
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