The Chinese corporation Huawei has turned off support for Russian Mir cards in its branded app store AppGallery.

According to Russian media , now when you try to pay by card “Peace” payment is declined, the store offers to use another method of payment or try later.

Difficulties in using bank cards of the Russian payment system were also confirmed by Huawei’s support service, without specifying the reasons for this.

The day before, the Russian bank Otkrytie announced that Huawei had removed its program from AppGallery. Additions from Russia’s Promsvyaz Bank (PSB) and VTB have also disappeared from the store. Earlier, the programs of these banks were removed from the App Store and Google Play. Earlier, the US and the EU imposed blocking sanctions against VTB, PSB and Otkrytie.

Payment with “Mir” cards in AppGallery became available to users at the end of January.

Huawei is a major Chinese manufacturer of consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment. In May 2019, the United States added the company to the list of sanctions because, according to US authorities, it was collecting intelligence for the benefit of the Chinese government. The company has repeatedly denied these allegations. As a result, Huawei’s activity in the US market was significantly limited.

As previously reported, the international payment systems Visa and Mastercard have announced the closure of the Russian market. Visa and Mastercard international payment cards issued by Russian banks will not be available for payment abroad, including on foreign Internet resources.

At the same time, the cards of these payment systems of all Russian banks will continue to operate domestically as usual, as transactions with them have been processed by the “National Payment Card System of Russia” since 2015. She also owns the Mir payment system, which was developed in case of sanctions. Джерело: https://biz.censor.net/n3333466

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