New Delhi (India), 21st March 2023: According to Monday’s edition of the Russian daily Kommersant, the Kremlin has ordered officials working on the country’s 2024 presidential election to stop using Apple iPhones by the end of March.
According to the report, the order was made because of worries that Western spy agencies could exploit the iPhone’s vulnerability.
The Kommersant reported that during a seminar in Moscow that was held earlier this month, Sergei Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, delivered the instruction to officials engaged in domestic politics, according to sources at the event.
They were asked to replace their iPhones with phones built on other smartphone software, such as Android, Chinese counterparts, or Aurora, an operating system developed by the Russian company Open Mobile Platform.
In a translated version from the Russian newspaper the officials in the meeting were told, “It’s all over for the iPhone: either throw it away or give it to the children.” The instruction further stated that all the involved officials will have to get rid of their iPhones in the month of March itself.
Kremlin which is the House of the Government of the Russian Federation might offer various operating systems for other devices to take the place of iPhones.
