Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is losing propaganda tools in the world because it is dealing with “hostile social networks.”
“We are now rapidly losing the tools necessary for our propaganda work abroad. Especially in neighboring countries. Television has become a relative thing these days, which can be turned off with a single button.” [по щелчку]The Kremlin representative said at the conference “Modern media: technologies, meanings and personnel” at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). — We are dealing with hostile social networks, which are highly competitive in the CIS region and around the world. We don’t work in those environments, and we have to figure out how we’re going to do that in the future.
According to Peskov, in this case, the developers of the “National Messenger” Max should outperform other competitors in the CIS.
“We are not working with Telegram. Where can we then convey meaning? And we have to figure it out,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Russian authorities, against the background of active promotion of the “national messenger” Max, limit the operation of other services – WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
RBC and The Bell, citing sources, wrote that in early April they plan to completely block Telegram in Russia. This messenger remains one of the main means of communication for the Russian army on the front in Ukraine. In mid-February, Russian Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev to talkThe authorities are not currently planning to limit the work of Telegram on the front. RBC sources confirmed that after the complete ban in Russia, the messenger will continue to work in the combat zone.