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MOSCOW: Russia<\/a>'s communications regulator on Wednesday demanded an explanation from Apple<\/a> after applications operated by the Russian state-controlled tech firm VK<\/a> were removed from the U.S. firm's App Store<\/a>.
The regulator, Roskomnadzor<\/a>, has been a thorn in the side of foreign tech firms, issuing fines over data storage violations and for failures to remove content Russia deems illegal - disputes that have escalated since Moscow sent its armed forces into Ukraine in February.
VK runs Vkontakte<\/a>, which with over 75 million monthly users is Russia's largest social network, often compared to Facebook. Along with VK's email service Mail.ru<\/a>, Vkontakte must be pre-installed on mobile devices sold in Russia.
Roskomnadzor said Apple's actions had deprived millions of Russians of access to VK apps and demanded that it explain its decision.
Apple said it follows laws in the jurisdictions where the company operates. Apple said the apps in question were being distributed by developers majority-owned or majority-controlled by one or more parties sanctioned by the UK government.
Regardless of location, the apps cannot be downloaded from any App store, said Apple, which terminated the developer accounts associated with the apps to comply with UK sanctions.
State-controlled VK tightened its grip on Russia's internet space this month by finalising a deal to buy rival Yandex's news aggregator, content platform Zen and yandex.ru homepage.
VK CEO Vladimir Kiriyenko is under UK sanctions, along with his father Sergei Kiriyenko, who serves as President Vladimir Putin's first deputy chief of staff.
Roskomnadzor called the restrictions \"discriminatory\" and said they violated Russian internet users' right to free information and communication.
Russia has, however, itself limited its citizens' access to information by forcing all significant independent Russian media to close and blocking U.S. social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
VK on Tuesday said that its apps, including Vkontakte, continued to work if already installed on smartphones, and that it was continuing to develop and support apps for Apple's iOS operating system.
Roskomnadzor also asked Apple to explain its removal of other apps, including those of airline Aeroflot<\/a> and a number of banks such as top lenders Sberbank and VTB .
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俄罗斯要求苹果解释VK从App Store
监管机构,该外国科技公司的眼中钉,发行违反罚款在数据存储和失败删除内容以来,俄罗斯认为非法——纠纷升级莫斯科2月派出军队到乌克兰。
莫斯科:俄罗斯的通信监管机构周三要求一个解释苹果应用程序后由俄罗斯国有科技公司VK从美国公司的吗应用程序商店。
监管机构,该一直是外国科技公司的眼中钉,发行违反罚款在数据存储和失败删除内容以来,俄罗斯认为非法——纠纷升级莫斯科2月派出军队到乌克兰。
VK运行Vkontakte每月有超过7500万用户是俄罗斯最大的社交网络,通常比Facebook。随着VK的电子邮件服务mail . ru,Vkontakte必须预先安装在移动设备上在俄罗斯出售。
Roskomnadzor说苹果的行为剥夺了成千上万的俄国人获得VK应用,要求其解释的决定。
苹果说它遵循在公司运作的司法管辖区的法律。苹果说,问题是分布式的应用程序由一个或多个开发人员控股或majority-controlled党得到了英国政府的批准。
无论位置,不能从任何应用程序商店下载应用,称,苹果开发者帐号终止与应用程序相关联的遵守英国的制裁。
国有VK加紧了俄罗斯的互联网空间本月敲定收购竞争对手Yandex的新闻聚合器,内容平台禅宗和yandex.ru主页。乐动扑克
VK CEO弗拉基米尔已经服役是根据英国制裁,连同他的父亲Sergei Kiriyenko作为总统弗拉基米尔·普京的第一副参谋长。
Roskomnadzor称为“歧视性”,并表示他们的限制违反了俄罗斯的互联网用户的信息和通信自由。
然而,俄罗斯本身有限的公民获取信息通过强制所有重要的独立的俄罗斯媒体关闭,阻止美国Facebook社交媒体平台,Instagram和Twitter。
VK周二说,其应用程序,包括Vkontakte,继续工作,如果已经安装在智能手机上,这是继续开发和支持苹果的iOS操作系统的应用程序。
Roskomnadzor还要求苹果解释其删除其他应用程序,其中包括航空公司俄罗斯航空公司和许多顶级银行储蓄银行和俄罗斯外贸银行等银行。
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