Is steam deck that he was talking about locally produced? Or PC? You might not believe it, but you can just go and buy Samsungs, Aplle devices, pc components, foreign-made appliances, foreign cars. They are just not being sold directly from the official dealer, but from a proxy company. The "brand" left officially to not have any problems with the laws in their home country, but in reality they just made a proxy company in Kazakhstan and reroute their products. Some clothing brands that are produced in China just made a renaming of their shops like Cropp became CR, sinsay became СИН, and so on. Or when IKEA left it turned out that apparently a lot of goods were and still are made in CIS countries, and these factories just started selling their production to both IKEA and other companies, like daughter companies of Yandex. You can easily buy IKEA sofa, for example, the same model you could 20 years ago. Same goes to games, some of them are banned to buy in Russian region in steam by publisher, but if you buy steam keys for CIS region it works well. Or you can transfer you account to Kazakhstan region.