Russia announced that it will launch its domestic photo- sharing, Instagram like, application due to the ban of global social media platforms by their major operators such as Meta and Google in the country after the Russian military operations in Ukraine.
Called Rossgram, the platform will be available from March 28.
Users will have some services and functions after paying certain fees.
Rossgr's PR Director Alexander Zobov said: "My partner Kirill Filimonov and our group of developers 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 beloved by our compatriots."
He added that the colour scheme and the layout of the new platform will be similar to Instagram.
A few days ago, the Russian authorities had banned Instagram, similar to Twitter and Facebook in Russia.
On the other hand, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has announced that he has issued arrest warrants for three people accused of alleged war crimes during the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia.
A statement issued by Khan said that the suspects wanted for arrest are Mikhail Mairamovich Mendzaev, the then Minister of Internal Affairs of the pro-Moscow separatist region, Gamlet Guchmazov, head of the ministry’s detention center, and David Georgievich Sanakoyev, who was the “republic mediator” in the region.
“My request for these arrest warrants focuses in particular on the unlawful detention, ill-treatment and hostage-taking, and the subsequent unlawful transfer of civilians of Georgian origin in the context of the occupation of the Russian Federation,” he added.
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