UK hits Russia with British IT services ban
Fresh export sanctions were leveled at Russia by the UK last week, with IT consultancy among other professional services that are banned.came in response to the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia after Russian president Vladimir Putin held sham"referendums" in the final week of September.
Under the new sanctions, Russia will lose access to not only to British IT consultancy, but architectural services, engineering services, and transactional legal advisory services for certain commercial activity – described by the UK government as"major western services that Russia depends on." It's hard to quantify exactly how much of Russia's IT services originate from the UK, with the Foreign Office saying it was moving in"lockstep" with other countries, explaining that the largest country in the world imports 67 percent of its services from sanctioning countries.designing IT systems and software applications.
It's unclear whether the impact will be particularly large – not many UK IT consultancies have been doing work in Russia, with Investment Monitor estimating most British orgs had
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