Spotify closes access from Russia?

I used a free Spotify account registered through a French proxy, but the connection was made directly.

Today I received a letter with the following content:

Dear Spotify user,

Spotify account which up
Until now you've been using free of charge. While we are really
happy that you are enthusiastically using Spotify, we are
unfortunately
account.
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Spotify is currently available in six countries: Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Spain, France and the UK. We never intended to allow
do not run
we are in the launch countries.
For this reason, you will be
music and playlists but not
listen to any music.

We are sorry that we have to take this step. We do hope to
launch our service.


There is no information about this on the offsite.
Apparently, now you have to use a proxy or use the local library.