GL-65
ActiveAuthorizing Transactions Related to Telecommunications and Certain Internet-based Communications Involving Megafon PAO or Digital Invest Limited Liability Company
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Summary
This license authorizes transactions ordinarily incident and necessary to the receipt or transmission of telecommunications involving Megafon PAO, Digital Invest Limited Liability Company, or their majority-owned subsidiaries, where those transactions involve Tajikistan or Uzbekistan. It also authorizes the export or reexport of services, software, hardware, or technology to those covered entities that is incident to the exchange of communications over the internet, including instant messaging, videoconferencing, chat, email, social networking, web browsing, blogging, web hosting, and domain name registration. Certain categories of transactions remain excluded, including correspondent/payable-through accounts for sanctioned financial institutions, debits to Russian sovereign accounts, and transactions prohibited by E.O. 14066 or E.O. 14068.
Authorized activities
- Receipt or transmission of telecommunications involving Megafon PAO, Digital Invest LLC, or their 50%-or-greater-owned subsidiaries, where involving Tajikistan or Uzbekistan
- Exportation or reexportation, sale, or supply of services, software, hardware, or technology incident to internet-based communications to Covered Entities
- Instant messaging, videoconferencing, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos, movies, and documents
- Web browsing, blogging, web hosting, and domain name registration services
Conditions
The license does not authorize: (1) opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts for entities subject to Directive 2 under E.O. 14024; (2) any debit to an account of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation on the books of a U.S. financial institution; (3) any transactions prohibited by E.O. 14066 or E.O. 14068; or (4) any transactions otherwise prohibited by the RuHSR involving any person blocked pursuant to the RuHSR other than the blocked persons described in paragraph (a), unless separately authorized. The license also does not relieve persons from compliance with other Federal laws, including export licensing requirements under the Export Administration Regulations.