Without preliminary notice, the largest cross market in Aliexpress has banned Russians from buying DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, as well as the M.2 SSD format. These goods disappeared from the foundation on February 25, 2025 and still unclear when they are available to order from Russia, Ferra.ru's report.
The first person to pay attention to this is Blogger and Sergey Black budget observer. He has identified SSD SSD and DDR4/DDR5 is set for Russian buyers on Aliexpress.
Ferra.ru editors have confirmed this information by discovering that most of the range of DDR4/DDR5 RAM and the SSD of M.2 format are hidden from Russian buyers and are not available to order.
Ferra.ru Evgeny Kharitonov has identified some possible causes of what happened. He said that perhaps, manufacturers of Chinese computer components or Aliexpress faced amendments by the United States, checking the compliance of sanctions on high equipment supply to Russia.
In addition, Chinese banks, fear of US secondary sanctions, periodically block payments from Russia, which can lead to the ability to prevent the ability to buy goods for Russian buyers.
It is not excluded that this can be caused by changes in Russian law. Therefore, in 2024, there were a large number of Chinese sellers with Ozon Global and Aliexpress due to the design of a legal entity in Russia to continue commercial. Soon, the sellers were back, obviously, after doing all the documents.
Finally, the problem can be caused by technical errors or preparation for sale. However, Kharitonov considers such a scenario that cannot occur, because the limitations are only imposed on two types of components.
In all cases, we did not talk about a permanent bathroom of Russian buyers, but for a while, buying computer parts directly from China would be very difficult, and the Russians would have to move to the local Russian seller at a higher price, Ferra.ru concluded.
Earlier, it was reported that Russia would solve the monitoring of children's transactions in video games.