After President Vladimir Putin’s ‘warning’, one of Microsoft’s Russian unit may file for bankruptcy

A Russian subsidiary of Microsoft is planning to file for bankruptcy, a report claims. This comes after President Vladimir Putin recently said that foreign service providers like Microsoft and Zoom should be “throttled” to improve domestic software solutions. The planned bankruptcy declaration for one of Microsoft’s Russian units was reportedly published via a note on Fedresurs, Russia’s official online registry for legally significant corporate information. However, the tech giant has yet to share a comment regarding the potential bankruptcy of its Russian subsidiary or President Putin’s remarks. Microsoft maintained critical services in Russia following Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but in June 2022 announced a major reduction of its operations there due to shifts in the economic outlook and their effects on its business.