Miro, a collaboration platform, has announced that it will cease providing services to users in Russia and Belarus starting September 12, 2024, due to sanctions imposed by the United States.
The Miro collaboration platform has informed its users in Russia and Belarus that it will cease providing services starting September 12, 2024. Miro users from Russia and Belarus received an email notification detailing the terms of account blocking. According to the information, the platform will block accounts registered to IP addresses from these countries.
The notification from Miro emphasizes that the blocking will not affect accounts of Russian citizens registered in other countries. In addition, the company's support service offered users the option to change their payment region in order to continue using the platform by paying for the subscription with a foreign card.
Miro is taking these measures in accordance with the expanded US sanctions announced on June 12, 2024. In particular, the sanctions prohibit the provision of IT services and cloud services for software used in Russia. The US Treasury Department has determined that, starting September 12, the provision of IT consulting, design, IT support, and cloud services to any person in the Russian Federation will be prohibited.
History of Miro
The Miro platform was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin, natives of Perm. Initially, the company was called RealtimeBoard and only changed it to Miro in 2019. The first Miro office was located in Perm, but after entering the international market, the company opened headquarters in Amsterdam and San Francisco. The Russian division of Miro operated under the legal entity LLC «Multivitamin», which launched a liquidation procedure in 2022. The office in Perm was closed in March of the same year.
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