Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram

Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app

Originally published on Global Voices

Photo by Franck on Unsplash, free to use under the Unsplash license.

On June 10, the Russian Parliament passed a law to create a messenger application “with the ability to use state services.” The precise description of the app in the legislation suggests that it was written to accommodate a messaging app called Max, developed by Russia's largest social media platform, VK.