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Spotify shutters Russia office in response to invasion of Ukraine
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Customers walk at an Apple Premium reseller inside the Moscow GUM State Department store in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 28, 2014. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
The Spotify streaming service will close its offices in Russia following Moscow’s “unprovoked attack” on Ukraine, the company says in a statement.
According to a Spotify spokesperson, Spotify will also limit the accessibility of Russian state-backed streaming content on its platform. But the company won’t ban the service entirely in Russia.
“We think it’s critically important to try to keep our service operational in Russia to allow for the global flow of information,” the spokesperson says.
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