No buyers found for bankrupt Microsoft Rus's 4 billion ruble assets

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Rus's bankruptcy is the final result of sanctions pressure and withdrawal from Russia

The Moscow Arbitration Court declared Microsoft Rus bankrupt in October 2026. At public auction, the company's assets were valued at 4 billion rubles, but no one came forward to buy the property of the failed firm. It's the closing act of a drama that has unfolded over three straight years — since the introduction of sweeping Western sanctions and Microsoft's withdrawal from the Russian market in 2022.

The company, which once held a significant share of Russia's corporate software market, had turned into an empty shell. Its path to collapse can be summed up in one figure: revenue fell from 6.9 billion rubles in 2021 to 161.61 million rubles in 2024.

A rapid revenue collapse

The decline accelerated sharply in 2023, when Microsoft began systematically cutting off Russian customers from its cloud services. Revenue plunged 31-fold, settling at 217 million rubles. At the same time, the company stopped renewing software licenses for Russian organizations, prompting lawsuits from major clients.

In 2024, revenue continued to fall, dropping 23.6% to 161.61 million rubles. Government purchases of Microsoft software became rare, almost nonexistent. The company was fined 3.5 million rubles for refusing to remove content banned in Russia, but by then that was no longer the main blow — the real problem was that revenue from its core business had simply dried up.

From filing to bankruptcy ruling

In 2025, Microsoft Rus filed for its own bankruptcy. The Moscow Arbitration Court introduced supervision proceedings. By the end of the year, it was clear the company would not survive — restructuring was impossible given the political and economic situation.

In 2026, the court ruled to declare the company bankrupt. Real estate and property at the address Moscow, 125252, Chapaevsky Lane, 14 — Microsoft's former Russian headquarters — went up for auction. The property was valued at 4 billion rubles.

But no buyers emerged. Neither Russian nor foreign companies showed any interest in the bankrupt corporation's assets. That's hardly surprising: the office had effectively lost all purpose, Microsoft's technology is inaccessible to most Russian users, and the company itself had become little more than a legal skeleton.

Context: why the giant fell

Microsoft had operated in Russia since 1992 and was long the market leader. But early 2022 brought sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine. The company began winding down its business step by step: halting sales, suspending certifications, and relocating technical support outside Russia (to Poland).

In 2023, cloud services for Russian customers were cut off entirely. Russian companies filed lawsuits totaling 55 million rubles; VTB won 68 million rubles in a case over "unjust enrichment"; Aeroflot received more than 20 million rubles from Microsoft over the withdrawal of technical support. Each lawsuit dealt a fresh blow to the company's reputation and finances.

At the time of the bankruptcy, the company's top executive was Benjamin Owen Orndorff, but that could no longer change the outcome. The 4-billion-ruble property is all that remains of what was once the office of a mighty tech giant.