Re:MasterCard suspends all services in Russia
by maxgashkov on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:20PM
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A little background on why the cards won't stop working in Russia.
After first sanctions due to Crimean & Donbass conflict started rolling out in 2014, Russian gvt saw the writing on the wall and gradually strong-armed Visa & MC to move all the local transaction processing to НСПК (National System for Payment Cards).
Here's some more info on this (you can use Google Translate):
After first sanctions due to Crimean & Donbass conflict started rolling out in 2014, Russian gvt saw the writing on the wall and gradually strong-armed Visa & MC to move all the local transaction processing to НСПК (National System for Payment Cards).
Here's some more info on this (you can use Google Translate):
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE...