Apple Distribution International Limited

History

2022: Creation of a company

On February 4, 2022, it became known about the opening of a representative office Apple in. Russia Thus, the American company fully complied with the requirements of the law "On the Activities of Foreign Persons in the Information and Telecommunications Network Internet in Russia," which entered into force a month earlier.

This law allows foreign online sites with a attendance of 500 thousand users from Russia to open official branches in Russia, as well as place an electronic feedback form with Russian users, register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website for interaction with authorities, install a recommended attendance counter on the information resource, and also "limit access to information that violates Russian law."

Apple opened an office in Russia

According to SPARK-Interfax, the representative office of the Irish company Apple Distribution International Limited is registered in Moscow in the Arbat region. Its area of activity is business and management consulting, as well as legal activities.

As one of the authors of the law on "landing," a member of the State Duma IT Committee Anton Gorelkin, specified, the functions of the Russian representative office of Apple will be performed by a separate legal entity, which has already been established by Apple Distribution Internet (this is the Irish division of the corporation, which is responsible for the work of its services).

Apple Rus LLC, opened in 2015, will still be engaged in device trading - but all issues related to the functioning of the information segment (including interaction with authorities) will now be sent not to Ireland, as before, but to the Moscow office, said Gorelkin.^[1]

And this means that Russian users will receive faster and better support, "he wrote in his Telegram channel.

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