The American company Google began to block Google Workspace corporate services (corporate mail, documents, etc.) of a number of Russian companies that came under US sanctions.
As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by Kommersant.
According to interlocutors at two major IT companies, on the night of August 10, Google began to massively block Google Workspace corporate services (corporate mail, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc.) for Russian companies under US sanctions.
Sources state that the American company justified the blocking by sending “spam.”
In May 2022, it became known that Google plans to liquidate the Russian LLC “Google” and take abroad employees who want to continue working for the American company. Already in June, Google LLC filed for bankruptcy of its own.
As Kyrylo Vynokurov, head of the Softline cloud solutions development department (a Google Workspace distributor) explained, the American company can block accounts that violate the rules for using the services.
Enterprise customers frequently contact Softline about Google services related issues, but so far there has been no “surge” of blocking, according to Vynokurov.
A source close to Google claims that changes to accessing Workspace services in Russia were “not intentional”.
As reported by Ukrinform, the American developer Microsoft will stop issuing software licenses to Russian companies after September 30.