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Audio-streaming platform Spotify is ending its service in Russia.Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Spotify Technology SA SPOT-N said Friday it will suspend its streaming service in Russia in response to the country’s new media law.

The audio streaming platform closed its office in Russia indefinitely earlier this month in response to what it described as Moscow’s “unprovoked attack on Ukraine.”

Russia’s new legislation makes it illegal to report any event that could discredit the Russian military.

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