After the technology companies imposed sanctions on Russia and withdrew from the country, interesting events began to happen. According to the report of a newspaper operating in the country, it has become difficult to find Russian-supported products . Users in Russia have to use products brought by parallel import , but these products do not have a Russian keyboard.
Russian users are longing for Russian keyboard because of war
The latest article by Kommersant discussed the methods used by import companies in Russia to bypass sanctions. Technology importer companies that have stock problems especially in the computer world; Can’t find Russian keyboard on products bought from countries like Turkey, China or Serbia .
It has been stated that Russia has started to ship technology via parallel imports (bringing products from different countries through third parties) in recent months. These products include equipment such as smartphones, laptops and keyboards.
After the invasion of Ukraine, Apple stopped its official sales and stopped shipping iPhones to the country . Therefore, companies in Russia started to buy iPhones from countries such as China through third parties.
However, the keyboards of these iPhones are set to the language of that country. In other words, the opening language of an iPhone shipped in China is also set to Chinese. A similar situation applies to laptops brought with parallel imports .
Apart from iPhone and computer, it is getting harder to find keyboards prepared with Cyrillic alphabet. In fact, non-Cyrillic keyboards are thought to make up 10 percent of the country by the end of the year. It is stated that these keyboards are Latin and even Arabic alphabets .
