Google is cutting Crimea off from Google Play, the company's online store for apps, games, books, music and movies, due to sanctions, Maxim Serdyuk, a programmer and resident of Simferopol, told Interfax. Google is also annulling its contracts to work with Crimean app developers for the Google Android operating system. Google said this decision was made "in line with recent sanctions against Crimea from the U.S. government and the European Commission."