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Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.
"US sanctioned region" is russia. The developer team fully consist of russian citizens, some of them are still in russia.
Why aren't russian people allowed to upload code. Why does the US get to dictate everything
Microsoft is a US based company. They cannot legally make business with sanctioned entities. And since it's not profitable for them - they just made a geoblock geoblock
Could MS ignore the sanctions in that case? probably