Claude began demanding a passport and blocking Russians. Anthropic has introduced mandatory identity verification (KYC). Official documents, including a driver's license, ID or passport, are now required to register an account. At the same time, the Russians are massively complaining about blocking, because Cloud is not officially available in Russia. Moreover, the document verification request does not go to everyone, but only to suspicious users, for example, those who use a VPN.

Claude began demanding a passport and blocking Russians. Anthropic has introduced mandatory identity verification (KYC). Official documents, including a driver's license, ID or passport, are now required to register an account. At the same time, the Russians are massively complaining about blocking, because Cloud is not officially available in Russia. Moreover, the document verification request does not go to everyone, but only to suspicious users, for example, those who use a VPN.