After Visa and Mastercard stopped working in Russia on March 10, tour operators began to offer Russians special tours – trips to neighboring countries to open cards of the international payment system. For example, in Uzbekistan. However, the cost of such tours reached 50,000 rubles, which is not cheap at all. Now, Russians (at least Muscovites) have a more affordable way to get a Visa card that works abroad. This was done by “Commercial Bank Kyrgyzstan”.
Issue price – 17,500 rubles (5,500 – issue and 12,000 – annual maintenance). After activating the card, the entire amount must be transferred to it by phone number through Sberbank, Tinkoff, Qiwi. And then Visa Gold can be used for any settlements or payments for purchases abroad. True, the happiness of owning such a card may be short-lived.
Formally, a Russian citizen (unless he is on the sanctions list) is not prohibited from getting an international payment system card in a foreign bank, but the bank itself is at risk. Such actions can be interpreted by the US and the EU as a circumvention of sanctions, and Visa can simply disconnect a foreign bank from its system.
Source: ixbt
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