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\"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":"

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