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PayPal stops services in Crimea

Xinhua, January 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. electronic payment system PayPal has stopped its services in Crimea, the system's administration said on Friday.

PayPal, which provides services in 190 countries, said it is "unable at the present time" to offer its online services to clients in Crimea, a peninsula incorporated by Russia last March.

The United States did not recognize the incorporation and has imposed sanctions against Russia.

"We apologize for the inconvenience resulted (from the decision)," the company said in a press release.

Also on Friday, the U.S. Internet giant Google warned it would limit access to a range of its services, such as Google Play, for Crimean residents starting from Feb.1. The search, map and mail services would not be shut down, according to the company.

"Being an U.S.company, we must obey (the sanctions)," the company's press service said.

On Wednesday, another leading U.S. company, Apple, withdrew from Crimea and demanded its local distributors stop sales of its devices there.

Last December, payment systems Visa and MasterCard suspended their banking operations in the peninsula. Endi