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2023: Appointment as head of the Russian subsidiary Sony
At the end of March 2023, it is known about the change of the head of the Russian representative office. It was a citizen of the Russian Federation Maxim Vikramasekera.
According to TASS, citing an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRUL), Vikramasekera became the general director of Sonya Electronics JSC on March 28, 2023. In this post, he replaced Takashi Abe. Judging by the information from the SPARK-Interfax database, Vikramasekera did not hold positions in other companies until that moment, the news agency notes.
Takashi Abe has led Sony's Russian division since 2019, replacing Fudzhita Takakiyo. Fudzhita Takakiyo has served as CEO since 2016. Soni Electronics JSC was established in 1994.
By March 2023, Sony does not supply consoles, peripherals and games in, and Russia has also closed access to the Playstation Store. Sony products are delivered to Russia using parallel imports. For example, on March 23, 2023 DNS , sales virtual reality of the PlayStation VR2 headset started. The device costs 70 thousand rubles and comes with a PlayStation VR2 Sense controller.[1]