Russia recently announced that LinkedIn could be blocked in the country after the service did not store country users' data on servers within Russia's borders, and today officially announced that the ban was in force.
Russia demands from the big companies technologys doing business in the country not to store data from Russian citizens on servers located outside the territory.
Local storage data it should only be held in domestic servers, and LinkedIn apparently failed to comply with this requirement.
According to a post by TechCrunch, LinkedIn has been blocked all over Russia. Authorities have asked the country's ISPs to restrict access in the service or else they will have to pay heavy fines.
LinkedIn for his part confirmed the exclusion of his services in Russia.
"LinkedIn's vision is to create economic opportunity for the entire global workforce. But we are hearing from members in Russia that they can no longer access LinkedIn," she said company.
The ban on LinkedIn is a very powerful hit for Microsoft as the company faces the same problems in Russia, mainly due to the plans of the country's president Vladimir Putin who believes the country should start using domestic software directly.
Vladimir Putin is trying to avoid software developed by foreign companies, arguing that he could hide backdoors that allow other nations to spy on Russia.