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-=[ISSUE RESOLVED]=- An update to everyone. I have sent another few emails, luckily landing at a different support team representative. They have confirmed that the previous rejection based on nationality was not valid and that they will process my case as usual.

This is probably the case. I hope that I will receive such information. As of now, I can’t find any communication from Packt that indicates that exact reason.

Thank you for this reply. I am happy to see a supportive comment here. Yes, I am updating on this just for others to be aware of this possibility. I was trying to solve this for a year already, and now Packt Team just stopped communicating with me whatsoever. I did not publish a book for money, and the amount of royalties is not life-changing for me, like with any other authors. But still, I don’t yet see this way of operations correct. The company is getting profits from my work, and I am devoid of my share until further notice. I am still getting quarterly notifications with outstanding amounts, but I can not do anything with them.

I share this to see if anyone ever experienced such situations, and to warn any upcoming authors with Russian nationality of potential issues.

Packt team were very supportive in the process of writing and releasing the book, and I had a good overall experience with them. And they always been on the line with me for any questions, till the last few weeks.

Of course I know about the sanctions. Do they negate the equity act? Do you know about any clauses there that forbid paying people for their work based on signed contract agreement? Or forbidding signing such agreements with people that were born in Russia?

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?

I see. Thanks for this clarification. This might be indeed the case, and if the publisher referred to any such restrictions I’d understood.

But their official letter which contains info on this said that restrictions only apply only to people in Russia or Belarus. Because of this wording, I have expected that the thing will follow the route of Binance or AirBnB, where you can work with the company without issues if you are not located in restricted country or have sanctions on your name. And up to this point all sparse info that I’ve received in replies just says the opposite: it’s based on nationality, and not location, and not backed up by any documented sanctions or restrictions.

> the UK enacted a number of sanctions targeting the banking sector, including a deposit limit for Russian citizens in UK bank accounts.

I do not request those funds to be deposited to a UK bank account, I even don't have any. And I don't have any sanctions imposed on me personally. The publishing company itself does not answer my questions of which laws or restrictions apply here. I do not understand, how am I being very disingenuous and bad-faith? I am refused to be paid without any comment on "why", despite "your nationality is Russian". Based on all existing laws, the only thing I could find is that using this as a sole base of rejection is not correct.