My understanding is that China requires that data for Chinese citizens is only stored in China (you can maybe export aggregate, anonymous data). Russia on the

My understanding is that China requires that data for Chinese citizens is only stored in China (you can maybe export aggregate, anonymous data). Russia on the other hand requires that data for Russian citizens be stored in Russia. I don't believe they prevent export. I've heard of large companies complying by simply uploading a tarball to a Russian server periodically.