If you look at the about page, there are telltale signs that he is from Slovakia, which is an EU country, just like a bunch of other Slavic countries, such as Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria.

It's almost certainly fraud or AML concerns. Companies are not allowed to explain this stuff.

Please do not call me a Russian .. I am Slovak.

Have you considered filing a complaint with your local data protection agency? Perhaps they could escalate your GDPR request.

That’s not how US secondary sanctions work.

>Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there.

But Apple is an American company? If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever, Apple has to abide those sanctions, even if he's not sanctioned in whatever country he lives in.

> If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever

Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information about the author: https://blog.kulman.sk/about/

What a shame that comments keep mentioning Russia just because the author's name is not "John Smith" or something.

People (including me) are trying to guess probable cause, and being associated in any manner with Russia or a Russian company could get you barred from many western online services. You don't even have to be Russian to test this - I am an indian and I couldn't sign-up to try IBM (or was it Oracle?) cloud with a yandex mail id.