Microsoft, Oracle likely to stop working with Russian banks over sanctions

Leading U.S. IT companies Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and others may be cutting off services to Russian banks and companies to comply with Washington’s sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine, spreading the same political anxiety that the banking sector has experienced in recent months into the Russian IT market.

The multinational tech companies have already joined in the government sanctions against the banks and may completely cease cooperation with them, Gazeta.ru reported, citing anonymous sources in the IT departments of two Russian banks and confirmation from Andrei Chernogorov, executive secretary of the State Duma’s commission on strategic information systems.