- Russia has already banned WhatsApp and Telegram
- Users went mass to Google Meet, which could also be prohibited
- The wechat -based Max platform will be pre -installed on a phone soon
Russia is considering prohibiting Google meeting as part of a broader repression against foreign technology, according to Moscow’s times information.
Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for the country’s media, has already banned voice and video calls through WhatsApp and Telegram, and the country is ready to expand even more restrictions.
With users looking for alternatives, Google Meet quickly became one of the most popular alternatives, one that Roskomnadzor is now also looking to ban.
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Google met recently with generalized interruptions, with more than 2,000 individual reports complaining of frozen calls, missing videos/audio and unexpected stops, however, Roskomnadzor has publicly denied any participation.
“People began experimenting with other platforms after blocking calls at WhatsApp and Telegram, apparently, overloads led to certain failures,” said the vice president of the DUMA State Committee on information policy, information and communications technologies Andrei Svintsov with a conversation with a conversation with a conversation with Abzats.
“Roskomnadzor has not taken any measure to restrict the operation of the Google Meet Video Companion in Russia, said the agency’s press at Interfax,” Interfax wrote the news agency in a telegram post (translated).
The publication also described the goal as “extremist”, linking WhatsApp with fraud, sabotage and terrorism. WhatsApp had more than 97 million users in Russia in July 2025 according to PakGazette.
“However, applications that can monitor our citizens, transfer information to Western special services, can be blocked,” Svintsov added.
Industry analysts expect an imminent prohibition of Google Meet that is linked to the promotion of Russia of Max, an application backed by the state that will be pre -installed on all new smartphones from September, according to the Wechat of China.
Max, which is still in a test phase, has already accumulated around 18 million users.
