What is the “Rosgram” that Russia will launch after blocking “Instagram”

Russia decided to create an “alternative” application for Instagram, the famous American application, in response to the company’s allowing its platforms to use hate speech and incitement against Russians, and to harass the Russian media.

Russia has previously taken the Russian "Vukentakte" platform as an alternative to "Facebook", which is also affiliated with "Meta", and "Yapi" as an alternative to "Tik Tok".

Now it's Rosgram's turn, which is scheduled to launch on March 28, a photo-sharing app in the local market to help fill the void left by Instagram, which authorities blocked midweek, and will have additional functions such as crowdfunding and paid access to some content.

According to "Sky News Arabia".

As the director of public relations for Rosgram, Alexander Zubov, wrote on the VKontakte network, his partner Kirill Filimonov and the developer group were already ready for this turn of events, and decided not to miss the opportunity to create a Russian analogue of a popular social network that Russian citizens liked.

And "Rosgram" is not the only technology platform in Russia, where Gazprom Media launched in November the "Yappy" platform as a local competitor to the video-sharing platform Tik Tok, and Russia also owns the Telegram platform, which is very popular in the world.

The academic and political researcher residing in Moscow, Kabyle Al-Hussein, believes that Russia, with this step, seeks to mitigate the impact of the recent European Union decisions by blocking all Russian media platforms on its territory, whether on Facebook, Instagram and recently YouTube. ».

Al-Hussein added, to the "Sky News Arabia" website, that in light of the recent escalation between Russia and Ukraine, the West tightened its control over the failure of the Russian opinion to reach the world, and sought to pass only the Western version of events, and this prompted Moscow to find alternatives;

Because the war has become more informational than military.

He pointed out that Lucia is not the only one that has taken this path to prepare itself for this war, as China has previously banned Facebook on its soil and launched other platforms.

Moscow-based media expert, Nagham Kabas, told "Sky News Arabia" that Russia's launch of its own platforms also aims to republish media materials depicted by journalists;

Because "Google" began to delete all videos, interviews and bulletins broadcast by the Russian media, and a complete cancellation of the Russian version of events.

Nagham Kabbas put these Russian steps in the category of "self-defense", especially as the matter developed into exposing Russian citizens to violence, by allowing Facebook to publish materials that incite violence and hatred against Russians, and the results of this appeared in Russians being attacked and insulted in the United States, What forced the Russian Embassy in Washington to intervene.

Before the Russo-Ukrainian war, major media outlets were blocked, including the newspaper "Zvezda" and "Sputnik" and "Novosti" agencies.

Immediately after the outbreak of the war last February, the giants of social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tik Tok, announced that they would not allow the official Russian media to publish their materials on their pages in the European continent at the request of the European Union, and they would not allow the financing of media campaigns for Russia, in addition to restricting access to affiliated content. she has.