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Russia pushes a state-controlled ‘super app’ by sabotaging its rivals
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For weeks, the authorities have been impeding voice and video calls on WhatsApp and Telegram.
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Paul Sonne and Alina Lobzina
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BERLIN – In Russia, it is hard to escape MAX, the new state-controlled messaging app
Billboards are trumpeting it. Schools are recommending it. Celebrities are being paid to push it. Cellphones are sold with it preloaded. In one city south-east of Moscow, the municipal emergency loudspeaker belted out an exhortation to install it.
