CIS Satellite 2015

"occupied" should be put in quotation marks. It's much more complicated with money transfers. We don't have proper Russian banks, only subsidiaries. Basically, to avoid sanctions, they devised a scheme. Sberbank has almost disappeared for the same reason. I think that if you really want to send money, it won't be difficult, but I've encountered difficulties like "give us some recipient account that is linked to a phone number," etc.