Stop Doing
Business with Russia
Russia initiated aggression against Ukraine in 2014. On February 24, 2022, it started a full-scale military invasion to the Ukrainian territory. This brutal war and military crimes of Russian troops caused a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine with thousands civilians killed and millions becoming refuges. As a reaction to this act of aggression, many international companies decided to leave the Russian market, while some others continue doing business there as usual. We track such decisions of companies and urge them to stop funding the war.
Hold off investments: company postponing future planned investment/development/marketing while continuing substantive business
Pausing InvestmentsReducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Scaling BackPause operations: company temporarily curtailing operations while keeping return options open
SuspensionClean Break: the company completely halting Russian engagements or exiting Russia
WithdrawalExit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market or liquidated local entity(ies)
Exit Completed
Spin Master does not have any operations in Russia. Spin Master suspended operations in the country in March 2022 and made the decisions to officially close the Russia office in June 2022. But three months into the war, Spin Master Corp. (best known for PAW Patrol, Bakugan, Kinetic Sand, and Rubik's Cube) is still “watching the situation in Ukraine” without taking a stance against the war and cutting ties with Russia.
Promised to suspend sales of products in Russia & Belarus. The company promised not to sell content in the Russian Federation and geo-blocked its games for the Russian Federation. Their GOG store removed rubles and does not sell in the Russian Federation but the company maintains an official channel in VK (https://vk.com/cyberpunkgame, the link to which is on the Russian version of the official page of their game at the bottom of the page https://www.cyberpunk.net/ua/ru/), in which it officially apologized to the Russians for the incorrect Ukrainian translation of the latest addition, which shows the company's still focus on the Russian market.
Russian version of the website still propose company's products. While there is no a public statement regarding business in Russia, the company announced at reddit.com that it is not doing business in Russia as usual and firmly stand with the people of Ukraine. Corsair and all its subsidiaries ceased shipments into Russia in February 2022 and closed operations in the country as of summer 2022, resulting in the redundancy of all Russian staff. Corsair may still have products on sale in Russia, but these were all sold to regional distributors and retailers prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022.
Stop in-game commerce for Russia. Epic Games included Russia in the list of "restricted regions from receiving prizes" after the invasion of the Russian Federation troops into Ukraine, which is specified in the rules of FNCS Major 3, Sports.ru notes. Belarus was not on this list.
The developer of Counter-Strike has limited payment methods on Steam for Russians. RKN (Roskomnadzor) made the temporary inclusion of the Steam page in the register of prohibited information. Roskomnadzor currently does not plan to introduce any restrictions regarding the Steam gaming platform.
