Why developers in Belarus were blocked ? It is longer impossible to download UE4.

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is not fair. Our neighbors invaded souvering country - everything fine, russian comunity can use UE4. But freelancers from Belarus are blocked because of human rigths problems in our country , because of lack of OUR freedom. Shouldn’t sanctions targeting dictator and his goverment?

It was a mistake that is now in the process of being fixed. Here is the most recent info:

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Quick update – it turns out we were overly aggressive in the way we are blocking folks in Belarus and Lebanon. Our apologies for any and all issues caused for affected!

We are currently looking into tech solutions that would allow us to open up access to almost while still complying with US and EU law. It is most likely going to boil down to us not allowing certain first / last name combinations from signing up. We also need a process for folks that unfortunately share the same name as someone on the official “bad actor” list to still be able to sign up after verifying they are not the person on the list.

We already have someone looking at the code, have a meeting on Monday to go over all the tech details, and are making the implementation a priority. My hope would be for us to be able to deploy all by the end of next week. fingers crossed

I will post an update as soon as there is more to share! Thanks for your patience.

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We’re sorry for the delays and complications on .

The US laws are complex and we have realized our blocking was overly-aggressive. Over the coming week, we will be working hard to open up the downloads and website as widely as is legally possible. requires talking to a lot of lawyers and modifying the web site.

Since we have a lot of Russian-speaking developers in thread, please tell us: What else (besides fixing our broken web site!) should we doing to make UE4 more accessible for you? Are the English language documentation and videos useful, or should we be localizing them? Should we be localizing the Unreal Editor UI? Should we be setting up more Russian language forums, or do you already go elsewhere for discussins?

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We’re working on , and plan to have Belarus, Lebanon, and several other countries unblocked by Thursday week. We learned that US Treasury sanctions only prohibit dealing with certain companies and individuals in these counties, as described here: Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN) Human Readable Lists | Office of Foreign Assets Control. So, we were over-blocking in these countries. We’re fixing as fast as we can. I apologize for who is affected.

Please stay tuned for news when is complete!

Five countries will remain blocked from downloading UE4: Iran, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, and North Korea. US law prohibits commerce with countries. We are still investigating whether it is possible to allow UE4 solely for academic and educational use in these countries.