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instance, is obsolete in comparison to Telegram. The government will finalize the list after a review on December 15. The Bell predicts that the legislation will enter into effect around April 1, 2021.
Apple hasn’t responded to the latest news, but there’s no doubt that the company is not interested in downloading a messenger system associated with the siloviki, a voice assistant that would compete with Siri, and an anti-virus software that has been banned from use within the U.S. government.
2.6 ​ ​STOLYPIN: Corruption steals back into the Russian political agenda as Mishustin and Krasnov target the institutional profiteers
General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov has been busy. On 9 December, he chaired a conclave of the heads of law enforcement agencies on the​ ​implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Plan​ for 2018-2020. He tempered the usual self-congratulatory rhetoric with an admission that much still needed to be done and presented a shopping list of necessary measures, from greater powers to confiscate the property of corrupt officials, not least that have been moved abroad, and to target profiteering within state structures.
The day before, he had given a​ ​set-piece interview in ​Rossiiskaya Gazeta​, the government newspaper emerging as the ​Pravda​ of late Putinism, the place to find Kremlin policy encoded between the lines. He again highlighted kickbacks in state procurement as an area that needed serious attention, something that
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