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In early 2022, Russian tech firms got cut off from the platforms they had run on for decades. Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, AWS, and the whole

Spreadsheets are open in government offices and boardrooms everywhere, and they’re screaming for cuts. Inflation chews through procurement budgets, tax revenues look shaky, and the

When a country hits a wall on buying foreign tech, the first reaction tends to be doom and gloom. The logic seems airtight: without access

Introduction: Why Parallel Imports Matter Now Sanctions redraw trade maps overnight. For any business operating in or with a sanctioned economy, the old supply chains

Governments slap restrictions on technology transfer, and the knee-jerk reaction is usually doom and gloom. Cut off the flow of foreign know-how, the thinking goes,

Sanctions redraw the trade map overnight. Textbook supply and demand stop making sense. Instead, a shadow economy takes hold—brokers, rerouted shipments, and price tags that

State-owned enterprises sit in a strange spot. They aren’t pure businesses, and they aren’t just government offices dressed up in corporate clothes. They hover somewhere