«Russians don’t give up!»: Russians will soon have access to a Russian counterpart to «Instagram»*

Kremlin today

Today, on March 16, it has become known that at the end of this month the Russian service “Rossgram” will become available for the network users. According to the official Telegram channel of the new network, the access to the service will be granted, first of all, to bloggers with an audience of over 100,000 subscribers. This will happen on March 28. A few days later, in early April, the program will be opened for use by everyone. 

A picture from the page of its co-founder Alexander Zobov has already appeared in the official media of the new social network. From this photo, it can already be concluded that the interface of the program does not differ from the international social network Instagram, except for the logo. In the domestic version it is Rossgram.

Source: official Rossgram tg-channel 

«The new social network will have all the features you’re used to, but also additional monetisation tools for users – paid access to content, a fundraising function (crowdfunding), a referral programme and others.

We’re also working on a data migration feature from Instagram, so try to offload your Instagram data under Settings – Privacy and security – Download data – Request JSON file (not HTML)»,

–  the developers note. 

The founders are confident that the domestic counterpart is in no way inferior, and in some ways even superior, to Instagram. As a reminder, the international social network has been blocked in the Russian Federation since 14 March. This happened due to the fact that the American multinational holding company Meta made an official statement stating that the corporation would not block users who openly harassed the Russian people around the world, regardless of their profession, age or place of residence. Roskomnadzor immediately responded to this statement by filing a court application to block the application on the territory of the Russian Federation. The decision came into force on 14 March 2022. Millions of users lost access to their pages. Small businesses have suspended operations. It is to be hoped that Rossgram will be a worthy replacement for the familiar app from Meta Corporation. As soon as developers will open access to the app, we will set up an edition page on that social network. See you on Rossgram!

*This social network is on Roskomnadzor’s list of banned sites