MOSCOW — Russia’s leading media holding, which is controlled by state energy giant Gazprom, will launch an app similar to the video-sharing social network TikTok, the group’s CEO said Wednesday.
The Kommersant business daily cited Gazprom-Media CEO Alexander Zharov as saying the holding had purchased a service called “Ya Molodets” (“I am great”).
Zharov said the app was developed with the support of the Innopraktika foundation, an organization run by Katerina Tikhonova — one of President Vladimir Putin’s alleged daughters.
Gazprom-Media will “use the project’s software to speed up the creation of a new video service for Russian bloggers,” Zharov said, adding that it will be l…
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