How Moscow Region residents are being forced to install a government messaging app
A source for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info reported how residents of the Moscow region are being forced to register on the MAX messenger through utility companies. Management companies were even sent plans for the number of chats and subscribers.
Recently, information emerged about amendments to the Housing Code that mandate the exclusive use of the so-called "national messenger" for interaction with housing and communal services organizations. Our sources confirmed that all utility companies have already been ordered to "transfer people."
For example, they were sent letters citing a directive from the Ministry of Territorial Maintenance and State Housing Supervision of the Moscow Region. According to the directive, each management company is required to create and populate a MAX chat as soon as possible: 1 building = 1 chat. Moreover, each chat must (!) have at least 20 users.
Furthermore, management companies are required to create channels on MAX to disseminate timely and relevant information to residents, as well as a general chat for all apartment buildings served by the management company. The channel's audience must be at least 200 subscribers.
A corresponding report on the implementation of this order must be submitted to local government bodies—the relevant committees of local administrations. Information is communicated personally to management company managers, and strict enforcement is expected.
