Russia’s leading media holding, which is regulated by state energy large Gazprom, will launch an application similar to the video-sharing social media network TikTok, the group’s CEO said Wednesday.
The Kommersant organization daily mentioned Gazprom-Media CEO Alexander Zharov as stating the holding had bought a solution called “Ya Molodets” (” I am wonderful”).
Zharov stated the app was created with the support of the Innopraktika structure, an organization run by Katerina Tikhonova– among President Vladimir Putin’s claimed children.
Gazprom-Media will “utilize the project’s software program to quicken the production of a brand-new video clip service for Russian blog owners,” Zharov claimed, including that it will be launched within two years.
The app will sustain the sharing of brief vertical videos, comparable to the Chinese social media network TikTok.
Zharov organized Gazprom-Media previously this year after leaving his message as head of the Russian media guard dog Roskomnadzor that lagged the stopped working stopping of the Telegram messaging solution.
Gazprom-Media is just one of Russia’s largest media organizations, owning some of its most-watched television channels as well as a series of radio terminals.
Previously this month Zharov introduced that Gazprom-Media will launch 2 web sites comparable to YouTube in the following two years, with one being an enhanced variation of the Rutube streaming solution– a system targeted at Russian speakers that Gazprom-Media obtained in 2008.
On Wednesday Zharov said the holding had actually been benefiting “about a year to modernize it and also make it no worse than YouTube in regards to tools.”
Over the last few years YouTube has actually become a progressively prominent platform for young Russians, with some of the most-watched channels racking in tens of millions of views.
It has also become a source of independent information and also an alternative to the main tv networks that are mainly under state control.
Authorities have actually continuously tipped up efforts to tighten control over the Russian sector of the internet under the pretext of dealing with online extremism.
Earlier Wednesday the lower house of parliament passed regulation that would make it feasible to obstruct internet platforms, including YouTube, if they are found guilty of “censorship” as well as “discrimination.”