[Jon_Lowtek]

Luckily the article links its sources, so we can see that "some individual developers" is one guy on twitter who later said he is unblocked again and claims it was related to sanctions against his former employer. Would be interesting to see if people currently working for the sanctioned banks are affected. Investigative journalism instead of regurgitating blogs and tweets. Maybe i am too harsh, it is good some people translate russian sources.

More interesting is is the side note about GitHub enforcing the crimea sanctions from 2014 (still ongoing) that prohibit, among other things, the export of goods, technology, or services to the Crimea region of Ukraine. It seems that crimea nowadays only has two backbone providers, both routing through russia. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03100247/

Looking at how this could affect civilians in the crimea region it seems their primary problems are ethnic cleansing and oppression of opposition, not access to american services.