The threat of block­ing Google ser­vices for users from Rus­sia is quite real. Accord­ing to the Wall Street Jour­nal^one, in May 2022, Google began to take its employ­ees out of Rus­sia. This alleged­ly hap­pened due to the fact that in Rus­sia they blocked the account of the Russ­ian rep­re­sen­ta­tive office of Google, and the com­pa­ny could not pay for the work of its employ­ees. The account was seized due to late pay­ment of a turnover fine of 7.2 bil­lion for post­ing pro­hib­it­ed con­tent. Also, the Russ­ian “daugh­ter” of Google has been ask­ing to declare itself bank­rupt since May 18².

In fact, now in Rus­sia it is impos­si­ble to make any finan­cial trans­ac­tions with Google. For exam­ple, order adver­tis­ing or pro­mo­tion on Youtube. At the same time, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Amer­i­can com­pa­ny say that the free func­tions of their ser­vices will con­tin­ue to oper­ate in the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion.

The sit­u­a­tion becomes more com­pli­cat­ed due to the Russ­ian law on the land­ing of IT com­pa­nies. From 2022, online ser­vices with a dai­ly audi­ence of more than 500,000 peo­ple are required to open their rep­re­sen­ta­tive offices in Rus­sia. Sanc­tions for vio­la­tion of this rule are dif­fer­ent — from a ban on the sale of adver­tis­ing to com­plete block­ing. The­o­ret­i­cal­ly, after the clo­sure of the Russ­ian office, Google becomes ille­gal.

Because of these pre­req­ui­sites, we rec­om­mend that Russ­ian Google users take our advice and pre­pare in advance for pos­si­ble prob­lems with access­ing Gmail.

Step by step guide to save data from Gmail to computer

A lot of impor­tant infor­ma­tion can be stored in an elec­tron­ic mail­box — work doc­u­ments, per­son­al pho­tos and oth­er use­ful files. Los­ing them would be very sad.

For­tu­nate­ly, Google has long con­sid­ered the issue of stor­ing per­son­al data, includ­ing mail. To do this, it would be most log­i­cal to use Google’s own Take­out ser­vice.³.

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Tips and instruc­tions on how to save con­tent before the ser­vice is blocked

Saving data in normal mode

Let’s con­sid­er a sit­u­a­tion where you want to save all emails from mail before Gmail was blocked in Rus­sia. In this case, every­thing is sim­ple and you just need to wait a bit to save the infor­ma­tion.

• First of all, we go to the Google Archiv­er web­site (or Google Take­out in Eng­lish) and log in using our user­name and pass­word from our Google account.
• In the “Cre­ate Export” menu, select the “Mail” item — it will be approx­i­mate­ly in the mid­dle of a long list of ser­vices for archiv­ing.

• Then select the export set­tings. In the “Method of obtain­ing” we leave the option “By link”, in the “Fre­quen­cy” — “One-time export”, the file type is ZIP. Click the Cre­ate Export but­ton.
• After some time, an email with a link to the saved data in .mbox for­mat will be sent to the account from which you left the appli­ca­tion.

You can open this file through any mod­ern email client. For exam­ple, share­ware (a tri­al peri­od of 30 days is giv­en) The Bat. You need to install the pro­gram and in the main select the “Tools” item, then “Import let­ters” and click from “From a unix box”. After select­ing the .mbox file, the syn­chro­niza­tion process will begin. If there are a lot of let­ters, it may take a long time.

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