For promotional purposes, the Russian Ministry of Construction is requiring management companies across the country to migrate their building chats to the MAX messenger.

This follows from the letter from the administration Mozhaisk district of Moscow, sent to the heads of management companies, which опубликовал the human rights activist tweeted Evgeny Stupin.

The letter demands that the management company "ensure the duplication of communication channels in the MAX messenger and their use for sending notifications to consumers, as well as the transfer of in-house chats to the national MAX messenger." The basis for this is cited as the minutes of a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities. Konstantin Mikhailik, dedicated to “popularizing the national messenger MAX.” 

"This requirement isn't based on any legal provisions, and therefore there shouldn't be any sanctions for failure to comply. But due to the management company's financial dependence on government authorities (although in reality, residents choose the management company, and it's residents, not bureaucrats, who should be responsible to management companies), they will try to force us to switch to MAX.", Stupin comments on the situation. 

NeMoskva wrote that in the regions, state and municipal personnel were being forcibly transferred to MAX. officials and civil servants. School parent chats They were also forced to switch from the "enemy" WhatsApp to the national messenger. Since September, MAX will be pre-installed on all new smartphones sold in Russia.