Claude users say their accounts were banned after verification showed a Russian passport

Meduza29 October 2026, 16:18 UTCRussia

Users of the Claude chatbot say Anthropic, the service’s developer, has blocked their accounts after they completed identity verification using Russian documents. The complaints appeared on Reddit, on X, and on Telegram.

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