In the past few days, numerous countries have imposed sanctions on Russia, and many Western companies have taken steps and measures to punish the country for attacking Ukraine. Most recently, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called on numerous Western IT companies to voluntarily participate in the sanctions.
He sent open letters to Microsoft, Sony, Oracle, SAP and also Spotify. Oracle and SAP also recently announced that they would cease operations (Oracle) and sales (SAP). Spotify has now also reacted, but the Swedish streaming service “only” closed its offices.
“Preserve Information Flow”
However, this is a step that should not have been difficult for the company. As Variety reports, Spotify only opened its office in Moscow in February. This has become necessary under a new Russian law, which stipulates that foreign technology companies with more than 500,000 users must have offices locally.
The law is very new and many companies have yet to implement it – or rather should have implemented it before the war. Spotify has already complied, but withdraws after just a few weeks.
The company also wants to continue offering its streaming service in Russia. Spotify told Variety, “We consider it of the utmost importance to maintain our service in Russia to enable the global flow of information.” After all, the service will also ban content and channels from RT and Sputnik.
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Streaming, Streaming portal, Music streaming, Spotify, music streaming, Music service, Spotify Premium, Spotify Free, Spotify Logo
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