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"All employees were offered to continue working in VKontakte or Mail.Ru Group. Of course, everyone will decide for himself whether there is such an opportunity," press secretary of the Ukrainian branch of Vkontakte Vlad Legotkin said.

Read alsoRussia's Mail.Ru closes office in UkraineAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on May 15, 2017, signed a decree greenlighting a new set of sanctions against Russia, which include blocking access to Russian-based social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as Yandex online services. The Yandex ban was initiated by the Security Service of Ukraine.