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Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store

On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple’s App Store, and by the afternoon the Kremlin was asking why.

Dmitry Peskov, the presidential spokesman, said the government expected an explanation from Apple. He also offered Russians a workaround that doubled as a message: switch operating systems.

The removals were broad. Gone from the store were VK’s social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, along with the VK Video, VK Messenger, VK Music, and VK Dating apps, the Mail.ru email client, and the content platform Dzen, according to Meduza.

VK warned that iPhone users would stop receiving push notifications across its suite, and said millions of users were affected.

VKontakte and Odnoklassniki are among the most widely used social platforms in Russia, and Dzen is one of the country’s larger content aggregators, which gives the removals an unusually broad domestic reach.

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