No more VK or Odnokklassniki for Ukraine’s patrol police, pictured here on their first day of work in Kyiv in July 2015. Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak for Demotix.
Members of Ukraine’s new patrol police force make frequent appearances on social media—in fact, their penchant for posing for selfies and featuring in testimonials on social media pages seems to be part of their strategy to get Ukrainians to trust the reformed police ranks.
But now Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has decided to ban its police officers from using Russian social networks. This means that VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, the two Russian platforms most popular …read more
Source: Global Voices
