sanctions

Hey everyone! Just recently I wrote a detailed post about the whole saga with our funds that were frozen by Canada. In December 2025, we finally received all our money in our account, except for $10 from each transfer, which, as it turned out, J.P. Morgan charged, but whatever. It was both joyful that the money finally came back, and frustrating that no one will ever be held accountable or compensate for the losses from inflation....

The Story of Our Frozen Funds Hello everyone! It’s November 2025, and our story with the long frozen money has finally started to get at least somewhat resolved. Backstory In February 2022, we had been living in Canada for a little over a year, but our savings remained in Russia — mine from selling my apartment in St. Petersburg, and D.’s just regular savings. We didn’t transfer the money to Canada when we moved here because at that moment our relocation and work permit situation was extremely confusing....