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The Door Closes on Russia’s Tech World-Beater

The days when Russian companies could hope to prosper in the global market have ended, whether they accept the fact or not.

The expulsion from US App stores was a matter of time after US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced the ban on sales and distribution of Kaspersky products in June, citing Moscow’s influence over the company as posing a significant risk to US infrastructure and services. The early years of Putin’s rule may have allowed some to harbor illusions about the true nature of his regime, but nothing could survive the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Eastern Ukraine. A month after the Frankfurt forum, we helped the Washington Post to break a story, based on court documents, that Kaspersky lab had cooperated closely and secretly with the FSB.

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