Help to update my location! My region is Ukraine not Russia

[Hustler5000]

help to update my location! My region is Ukraine not Russia. why brave rewards disabled for my region?

[SmartyAadi]

PSA: Current FAQ

Rewards are not available in your area If you’re getting this message, it means your device Locale is set to be in a region that Brave is not able to support for Brave Rewards at all. This means no ads or any form of participation of Rewards is possible for you. Countries that are not available for Rewards can be seen at https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/9053832354957-Unavailable-jurisdictions-Brave-Rewards-is-not-available-in-your-region- If you don’t live in one of those countries …

[Hustler5000]

@PSA: Current FAQ

If you don’t live in one of those countries but still see this message, you will need to check all your device settings. Most likely, you have your country, region, regional format, or something of the sort set to a country that is on the list. Until that is changed, you’ll not be able to access Rewards.

Example of someone who had this issue is in screenshot below. You’ll see they had country for Belarus but regional format for Russian (Russia). This then told Brave they are from Russia, which at the time of this FAQ is not supported. Once they changed from Russian/Russia for their region and regional format, Rewards became available.

whats next?

[Hustler5000]

it is does not work

[Saoiray]

@Hustler5000

it is does not work

I don’t know your language. Main thing is what’s underneath your red circle? Does it say Russia/Russian?

[SmartyAadi]

I believe it says Ukraine. I speak a bit of russian so came in handy lol

[SmartyAadi]

It says russian in the language Pack tho…

[SmartyAadi]

You can translate images at
https://translate.yandex.com/ocr

[Hustler5000]

changing language of system to english helped me to solve it. close this thread

[programmeur]

Hm. I’ll try to change it to Ukrainian, even though we are now part of Russia. And in general, why did they suddenly ban awards for Russia? The meaning of the browser disappears from this.

[Saoiray]

@programmeur

why did they suddenly ban awards for Russia?

Because of Russia & Ukraine war, plus sanctions from most of the world.

Important: Uphold no longer supporting countries in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Balkans region

https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/230303-sanctions-year-in-review-2022-part-ii-russia

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/01/us-blacklists-bitcoin-ether-addresses-tied-to-russian-sanctions-evasion-efforts/

https://www.csis.org/analysis/cryptocurrencies-and-us-sanctions-evasion-implications-russia

Been many discussions of various types. But for most of the world, Russia is the “bad guy” and is cut off from many things.

@programmeur

even though we are now part of Russia

You must be Russian? Ukraine has long been considered a sovereign country, gaining independence in 1991. This is part of why the war is going on, where Russia wants to consume Ukraine.