Claude began massively blocking the accounts of Russian users after checking their passports. The service requires mandatory verification through the person: you have to select the country of the document, upload your passport and take a selfie with your head turned. After sending a foreign Russian passport, the account is blocked almost immediately - new requests become unavailable, only the ability to upload data remains. Appeals, according to users who encountered the problem, do not bring results. One of the Russians living in New Zealand said he uses a paid subscription. Two days before the blocking, he was billed for another month. After confirming my identity with a Russian passport, access to the account was disabled. Baza previously wrote that Anthropic had enshrined in its privacy policy the ability to ask users for identification and biometric data. Base in Telegram Base at maximum.