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The original poster is in Russia, which is why they care about GitHub being involved: GitHub is obeying US sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine. Any authentication service operating in the US or in another US-aligned nation would have the same issue. Crates.io itself is also likely bound by these regulations. So at this point realistically the OP needs to mirror crates.io and set up another registry (which cargo will absolutely let you use). This is just another cost to living under a pseudo-dictatorship.

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US has plenty of pseudo-dictatorship allies. This just depends on which side they're on.

Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed that would explain the sudden interest in sidestepping a tried-and-true happy path.

Seems like everything is working by design. It also feels a bit deceiving to hide the fact that the topic was basically asking how to evade sanctions, and expect everyone else to do the legwork for them.

Cloudflare is still present in Russia and nobody seems to have an issue with it.

"Cloudflare Walks a Tight Line with Its Decision to Remain in Russia ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31398875

> Cloudflare is still present in Russia and nobody seems to have an issue with it.

Irrelevant. GitHub complies with sanctions, and thus users from sanctioned countries cannot expect business to remain as usual. Services like crates.io have more pressing matters to deal with than helping third-parties circumvent sanctions.

I don't think Rust is owned by the US government.

I can't help but perceive it like you and the person you're replying to are pretending that OP should somehow just accept the sanctions, and that this was somehow fair. I'm not saying the sanctions are unnecessary, but can we not recognize that they disadvantage people who have done nothing to cause them, and that a more distributed system would be better in general?

The citizens of Russia could vote out or overthrow their leader. The goal of sanctions isn't indiscriminate pain, it is to incur a cost for bad behavior and encourage people to stop it. I think cutting off technology services to a country fighting a war of aggression against its neighbor is better than most alternative methods of retaliation.

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