It has been reported that the American company microsoft is completely withdrawing from Russia. For this, microsoft subsidiaries operating in russia have announced that they have gone bankrupt. According to a report published by the Economic Times, microsoft russia has gone bankrupt and has filed documents to officially cease its operations in Russia. In 2022, russia launched an attack on Ukraine. Following this, the US government imposed various economic sanctions on Russia. Companies from Western countries, including the US, gradually reduced their operations in Russia. In this way, microsoft has also gradually reduced its operations in russia since 2022. It has already removed the Russian state-owned news media RT mobile app from its Windows App Store.
 Microsoft has also banned advertisements that the Russian government may provide on its own media and platforms. This angered the Russian government. In this situation, microsoft russia, a subsidiary of microsoft, declared bankruptcy and is about to completely withdraw from Russia. This will close three Microsoft-owned companies operating in Russia. Alphabet-owned google has already stopped operating in Russia. google, which was operating in russia, announced that it had gone bankrupt in 2022. As far as the Russian government is concerned, Western media outlets have not given any cooperation to operate in their countries.
Especially after the US government imposed various economic sanctions on them, the Russian government froze the bank accounts of Western apps and companies. It is in this context that microsoft has come forward to completely end its operations in Russia. Just two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that we should not allow foreign service providers such as microsoft and Zoom to operate in russia and that we should give priority to domestic companies.
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Sowmiya Sriram

31/05/2025 01:40 PM