MasterCard and Visa could not explain why their cards pass through Crimea
In Crimea, they have learned to bypass the ban imposed by the international payment systems Visa and MasterCard on servicing their cards in Crimea. “Izvestia” writes about this, recalling that after December 2014, clients of Crimean banks could not use “plastic” outside the peninsula, and cardholders of Russian banks could not withdraw money in Crimea. As a result, Russia launched a national...