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Re:Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions aft... by hadrien01 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:09AM (#30511091)
Other networks. International ones like Visa or American Express, or national ones like Carte Bleue, Bancontact, etc.
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Re:Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions aft... by thinkingemote on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:37AM (#30511269)
Visa is blocking them too
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Re:Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions aft... by hadrien01 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:23AM (#30511713)
I interpreted the parent comment as how to react if the Mastercard network goes down worldwide when Russia retaliates by trying to hack them.

Payments networks inside Russia is another matter altogether, but I assume like most countries they also have a local card network (Edit: found it, it's called Mir[0]). In that case, the issue will arise only when trying to use russian cards outside Russia.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(payment_system)

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