Anyway, would be best to go through them, to find more recent legislation concerning your case than the Equality Act 2010.
I would not be asking questions if I know that I fall under any such restrictions. I am not a government worker, working and living abroad. My name is not in the sanction list. I have friends living and working in the UK who have Russian nationality. Those are regular people, getting their salary and paying their taxes. The same is the case for me, however I do not live in UK specifically.
I would have understood this, if I was asking to pay me on my Russian bank account, or to a Russian legal entity. But I am just a natural person, how could sanctions apply here?
Packt Publishing have made, possibly based on legal advise, their own interpretation of the restrictions. On the surface, I would imagine your contract language to be more relevant in this case than your country of residence. But it would be better to get actual legal advise than Internet comments on the case.
I have no doubt you already know your argument is bullshit, but opted to go on a smear campaign to try to circumvent the natural consequences of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines recently in other threads as well, such as the swipes in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749506 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749471. Moreover, we've had to ask you about this at least twice before.
Can you please review the site guidelines and fix this? We want commenters on HN to make their substantive points thoughtfully, not aggressively—partly as a matter of respect for other users, but mostly as a way of preserving the forum for its intended purpose.