Russian developers have been blocked from accessing the popular AI assistant Cursor
Users in Russia have lost access to Cursor—one of the largest services for writing code using artificial intelligence. According to RBC sources in the software development industry, the service stopped working in Russia on September 4.
There has been no official explanation from the company so far. At the same time, a day before the service was blocked, a new clause regarding compliance with U.S. export controls was added to Cursor’s user agreement.
Sergey Markov, Director of AI Technology Development at Sberbank, noted that Russian developers will now have to use workarounds to bypass the block or switch to other open-source models.
At MWS AI, however, they believe that programmers will be able to continue working with other tools, including Claude Code and Codex. They predict that the blocking of Cursor will not significantly affect the Russian software development market.
On Sunday, September 6, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in central Kyiv with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The American representatives had held talks at the Kremlin the day before and have now arrived in Ukraine for meetings with Ukrainian officials.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrived in Kyiv. They arrived in the capital and were already at Kyiv Central Station—this is their first visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
