Hotels in Russia will soon be required to check in guests who do not have an internal passport with them by using the ...

Russia's latest attempt to build a sovereign digital ecosystem is moving into high gear. Max, a state-backed messenger developed by VK, is being positioned as a patriotic alternative to WhatsApp and ...

Russia is pushing its Max messenger -- a social media platform without encryption -- onto its citizens with a massive promotion campaign and the simultaneous blocking of Whatsapp and Telegram, the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Julie Chang: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, April 3rd. I'm Julie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the evening of 3 June, Russian users noticed that Max, Russia's state-backed messaging app, had unexpectedly disappeared from ...

The Max messenger has blocked chats in at least four Russian regions where users were tracking gas availability and sharing information about lines at filling stations, the outlet 7×7 reported.

The Kremlin-backed Max messenger disappeared from the App Store on June 3. iPhone and iPad users lost the ability to download the app, and those who had already installed it stopped receiving ...

Russia is pushing its Max messenger -- a social media platform without encryption -- onto its citizens with a massive promotion campaign and the simultaneous blocking of Whatsapp and Telegram, the ...