REUTERS
China's largest online store AliExpress stopped servicing residents of the Russian-occupied Crimea, the local news agency Sobytiya Kryma reports.
Neither Crimea, nor the city of Sevastopol are available in the region selection list on the website of the online store, a local resident in Crimea explains, according to Sobytiya Kryma.
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As earlier reported, in late 2014 the U.S. prohibited its companies from providing access to popular web-based services for the residents of Russian-annexed Crimea. American services must refuse registering, downloading and activation of products to the Crimean residents.
Read alsoPlans to create gambling zone in occupied Crimea failRestrictions have already been imposed by Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the world's largest domain name registrar GoDaddy Group, one of the world's largest freelance exchanges oDesk, game developer Valve Corporation, Amazon online store, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and others.