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O-O: Russia requires its citizens to install ICQ on their smartphones - voila! technology

2023-01-01T08:21:58.278Z


The government in Moscow has determined that smart products that will be sold as official imports in the country must come with local applications. More on the list: Yandex browser and free Kaspersky antivirus


ICQ (Photo: GettyImages)

The 90s called:

due to the American sanctions, the government in Russia determined that starting today (January 1), every smartphone, tablet, smart TV and laptop sold in Russia through official imports must come with local applications - according to a report by RIA Novosti.

In Moscow, they determined a list of software from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), including: the old messaging program ICQ, the voice assistant Marusya and the e-mail service Mail.ru.



At the same time, the Internet browser of the Yandex corporation (Yandex) and Kaspersky's free antivirus will be installed on laptops, and the VK Video and Rutube applications (similar to YouTube) must be installed on every smart TV, alongside streaming applications of the state televisions.



Internet and TV services in Russia are expected to become more expensive this year by 10-15 percent.

Earlier it became known that stores in Russia started selling a service of installing applications that are not accessible on smartphones in the country, for example, banking applications.

The price: 2,000 rubles (about NIS 95).

In Moscow, they established a list of software from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin (Photo: Reuters, Sputnik/Alexei Danichev)

ICQ was sold at the height of its success in 1998 for $407 million to AOL, which at the time was one of the fastest growing Internet providers in the US. In 2010, with the decline in popularity and competition from Microsoft's Messenger, it was sold to Russia's Digital Sky (DST) in 187.5 million dollars Later DST even closed the company's development center in Israel.

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Source: walla

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