How to pay for foreign services if Visa, Mastercard and PayPal have suspended their activities?

Question

Payment systems

How to pay for foreign services like Dropbox if Visa, Mastercard and PayPal have suspended their activities in the Russian Federation?

Answer 1

As I understand it, the only working method so far is to fly somewhere, arrange a long-term lease, and make payments for commercial services in your name, open an account with a foreign bank, or wise.com, payoneer.com - after passing the validation at a new address.
Put some money in there and come back.
And you may not come back.

Answer 2

Get yourself a UnionPay card.

Answer 3

In Post Bank, I made a Unionpay virtual card in a mobile application. Payment for hosting in Germany is normal.

Answer 4

Nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If it's very critical - in theory, you can become a client of some Kazakh bank (you need a foreign and Kazakh phone), and pay for purchases with it.
But for this you have to go to Kazakhstan.
Another option is to use the services of those companies that accept MIR.

Answer 5

Buy a prepaid card, on the same plati.ru,
just check with the seller that the card was not issued by a Russian bank.

Answer 6

I'm looking for an answer to a similar question myself.
In my case, there is the possibility of a bank transfer, and in this case, it is advised to use a bank that was not subject to sanctions and SWIFT shutdown.
I don't know anything about Dropbox.

Answer 7

Look at Raiffeisen Bank .