{"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\/2014\/04\/app-helps-people-boycott-russian-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"App helps people boycott Russian goods"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/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 <\/p>\n 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":[],"categories":[],"tags":[18],"yoast_head":"\n