{"id":8222,"date":"2015-02-04T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:52:01","slug":"spotify-cancel-its-russian-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/spotify-cancel-its-russian-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Cancel Its Russian Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spotify-Overview-700x393.png\" alt=\"Spotify\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8223 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spotify-Overview-700x393.png 700w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spotify-Overview-577x324.png 577w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spotify-Overview.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotify has suspended its Russian launch for the foreseeable future, due to the current economic crisis, political situation and new internet laws. This follows after Google Inc closed its engineering office last year, after being asked to move all data onto servers based in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Former Google executive Alexander Kubaneishvili, who was supposed to lead the Russian launch of Spotify said: \u201cI regret to inform you that Spotify refused to launch in Russia in the foreseeable future. There are several reasons \u2013 the economic crisis, the political situation, the new laws governing the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has suspended its Russian launch for the foreseeable future, due to the current economic crisis, political situation and new internet laws. This follows after Google Inc closed its engineering office last year, after being asked to move all data onto servers based in Russia. Former Google executive Alexander Kubaneishvili, who was supposed to lead the Russian launch of Spotify said: \u201cI regret to inform you that Spotify refused to launch in Russia in the foreseeable future. There are several reasons \u2013 the economic crisis, the political situation, the new laws governing the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5588,5586,5589,774,440,434,4954,1038,5590,3805,825,5587],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spotify Cancel Its Russian Launch - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/spotify-cancel-its-russian-launch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spotify Cancel Its Russian Launch - RouteNote Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spotify has suspended its Russian launch for the foreseeable future, due to the current economic crisis, political situation and new internet laws. 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