Micha Kaufman, I join in the appeal and ask for some of your time.
I have been working on Fiverr since 2018, and I am sincerely grateful to you and all the employees of the company, including the attentive and responsible tech support team. Fiver has become my only livelihood and an opportunity to live and develop in spite of all the difficulties created by the government in my country. Thanks to the income in foreign currency I received for my work from wonderful customers, I was able to get out of poverty and get a chance to live a normal life and integrate into the civilized world.
Amidst the terrible wave of discrimination that the world community is now demonstrating, I sincerely hoped that Fiverr would help me out when the whole world has turned its back on the ordinary citizens of the Russian Federation, who have nothing to do with the terrible events that are taking place.
This global discrimination on the basis of territory does nothing to alleviate the crisis. On the contrary, it only increases losses and complicates the lives of ordinary people. Understand, you are simply depriving me and many of my compatriots of my last livelihood and hope for the future.
Such economic measures only strengthen the position of the current regime. I am extremely saddened by the events in Ukraine, because I, like many citizens of the Russian Federation, have friends and business partners there. None of us in our right mind would attack them. This madness is not the fault of ordinary citizens. We are held hostage by the regime here. It is already impossible for us to express our opinions openly (I can easily go to jail for 5-10 years and die there just for this my appeal), and without an outside source of income, most of the innocent citizens will be forced to submit to the dictatorship permanently.
I ask you to listen to us and let us continue to work on Fiverr, because we are not asking the impossible. I have been faithfully giving 20% of my income from orders to the company, have never broken the rules and have been helpful to my customers. My customers still need my services and my family and I need food and medicine and I am willing to keep working even if the commission gets higher.
Dear Micha Kaufman, I believe that common sense will prevail and I am counting on you. Thank you.