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by immibis 336 days ago
Are they sanctioned away from RIPE, like Russia is? Russia isn't allowed to be allocated any IP addresses they don't already have. They're Russia, so they already have a bunch, but if they didn't, they'd have to keep borrowing them on grey markets, possibly different ones each time. Iran might be that way.

(Fun fact about sanctions: the International Criminal Court is sanctioned away from Microsoft, so they can't legally get access to Windows or Office. This is because they prosecuted a war criminal the USA likes.)

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> Fun fact about sanctions: the International Criminal Court is sanctioned away from Microsoft, so they can't legally get access to Windows or Office.

How does that even work? There are many companies in the EU that (legally) sells second hand Windows and Office licenses to anyone.