{"id":10359,"date":"2014-04-02T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2014-04-02T17:16:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:16:22","slug":"app-helps-people-boycott-russian-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10359","title":{"rendered":"App helps people boycott Russian goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"appp\"<\/a>A smartphone<\/span> app to help identify – and boycott – goods made in Russia is becoming popular among Android users in Ukraine, it appears.<\/p>\n

The app, called Boycott the Occupiers, says it can find out where a product is made – whether in Ukraine, Russia or elsewhere – by scanning the product barcode with the phone’s camera. It has already been installed between 10,000-50,000 times.<\/p>\n

“The app will advise you if you should buy the product or boycott it,” the app description says on Google Play<\/a>. But the Gazeta.<\/span>ru<\/span> website<\/a>, which is often critical of the Kremlin, quotes experts<\/span> warning it could “lead to increased tensions between Moscow and Kiev”.<\/p>\n

The app claims it can also detect Russian companies trying to appear to be Ukrainian or Western, such as the fashion brand Carlo Pazolini or the Greenfield tea merchant.<\/p>\n

Russian media analyst Anton Nosik tells Gazeta.<\/span>ru<\/span> the app will “cause huge damage to Ukraine’s image in Russia”. But he adds: “From the point of view of Russian policy in Crimea, it’s a godsend!”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian MP Oleg Mikheyev says: “I would advise the smart alecs<\/span> who make these apps to stop buying Russian gas and other fuels.”<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A smartphone app to help identify – and boycott – goods made in Russia is becoming popular among Android users in Ukraine, it appears. The app, called Boycott the Occupiers, says it can find out where a product is made – whether in Ukraine, Russia or elsewhere – by scanning the product barcode with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}