Dispatches from the cultural nuclear war:
Sony Music, Warner Music, and Universal Music are out. Someone tell me what they did aside from collecting royalties.
Disney is out. No more licensing, no more Disney Cruises, I'm literally shaking rn. They will continue to pay workers (for how long?).
Western Union will be out on March 24. In Russia, no one has been using it for 15 years except African jewel smugglers; CIS guestworkers use a Russian system and Russians use Sberbank and NSPK's free transfers.
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Russians are panic-buying meds and there are shortages. (Meds are allegedly exempt from sanctions.) The Russian pharmaceutical industry somehow survived the 90s and was purposefully destroyed by Putin in mid-00s. Russia makes its own
aspirin and
coof tea.
I forgot if I had said it already, but the second-biggest* consumer "cancellation" which hurt people is
premium cat and dog food. Import restrictions on it were enacted by Putin as part of Crimea-related countersanctions around 2016 and formalized in 2021. People remember and hate Putin for this.
*The biggest by far is Visa and MasterCard ceasing overseas transactions. It massively benefits Russia to finally cut them off from collecting fees on domestic transactions, but consoomers are sad.