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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 7167941, member: 397965"] In general poker sites dont leave particular markets for "political reasons", but rather always for some kind of business reason. PokerStars for instance left Russia, because russian banks were banned from the SWIFT system after Russias invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which makes it difficult for them to pay out russian players. PokerStars also recently left Poland for completely unrelated reasons, but they are still operating in Belarus. The idea, that it somehow violates the right of russians, that they can not play on certain sites, is totally ridiculous, since the same is true for everyone else. As someone living in Sweden I can not play on PartyPoker for instance, since they decided to leave our market in 2024. So russians just need to play, whereever its possible for them, like the rest of us. Thats all, there is to it. [/QUOTE]