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What Russia's Meta listing meant for business
Summary
A look back at the mid-October 2022 reports on Russia's action against Meta Platforms and the strike on an Avdiivka marketplace.
What did the news around 14 October 2022 say about the pressures on ordinary economic life in the war? Two reports from the preceding days offer a partial answer.
On 11 October 2022, Russia added Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to its list of "terrorists and extremists". The stated grounds were that the company tolerated Russophobia and allowed calls to violence against Russians. The listing targeted a major technology company, placing it in the same official category as designated extremist entities.
On 12 October 2022, Russian forces struck a marketplace in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, killing at least seven civilians and injuring eight others. A marketplace is a place of everyday trade, and the attack fell on people there.
The two events were separate and the reports do not link them. Together they show the war reaching commerce in different ways: through a state designation aimed at a foreign company's platforms, and through violence at a site where civilians bought and sold goods in the Battle of Donbas.
