Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 5:17 PM Aaron Wendel <aaron () wholesaleinternet net>
wrote:

> I think you're reading it incorrectly.
>
> The US government and many other countries have imposed sanctions
> against Russia and barred businesses in those countries from doing
> business in Russia.  Cogent is a US based company and, even if it
> operates on foreign jurisdictions through subsidiaries, has issues
> providing services to sanctioned entities.  That's how I read the
> excerpt provided.
>
> Aaron




Yes.

I picked this up via news related to Lumen and Russia today.

"We decided to disconnect the network due to increased security risk inside
Russia."

https://news.lumen.com/RussiaUkraine

Warm regards,

-M<