Russia To Launch Pokémon Go Clone Without CIA's Satanic Pokémons
Source: Gawker
The official launch of Pokémon Go in Russia has been delayed indefinitely, but Moscow City Hall promises to release an app by the end of August thats kind of similar, but instead of stampeding after branded cockfighting critters, users can catch historical figures like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Yury Gagarin, Alexander Pushkin, and Russias only beloved dead post-punk rock star Viktor Tsoi. But you cant battle them. And it will only work in Moscow. But you still get to walk around a lot. Nice.
Meanwhile, enough Russians are using foreign-registered accounts to download the app illegitimately that Russias consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is investigating Pokémon Go for possible harmful psychological effects. A state-owned television channel recently aired a special report warning people about how they can go to jail for playing the game.
Its not the biggest deal right now, but poke enough Russian officials into commenting on a hype thing and you get some really wonderful opinions. It feels like the devil arrived through [Pokémon Go] and is trying to tear our morality apart from the inside, said one parliament member. We need to take people out of the virtual world, and this generally smacks of Satan, said a leader of a St. Petersburg-based ultraconservative Cossack group.
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