{"id":1001848,"date":"2026-04-09T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001848"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:53:56","slug":"russia-sees-chinas-wechat-douyin-as-models-for-its-homegrown-max-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/russia-sees-chinas-wechat-douyin-as-models-for-its-homegrown-max-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sees China&#8217;s WeChat, Douyin as models for its homegrown Max messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia sees Chinese tech giant Tencent&#8217;s WeChat messaging app and TikTok sister app Douyin as models for developing its own struggling Max messaging app, Vladimir Kiriyenko, CEO of state-controlled internet firm VK, said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin is pushing Russians to use Max instead of Telegram, currently the country&#8217;s most popular \u200cmessaging app, but \u2060is \u2060facing stiff resistance from users, who argue that Max lags far behind its rival in terms of functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia sees Chinese tech giant Tencent&#8217;s WeChat messaging app and TikTok sister app Douyin as models for developing its own struggling Max messaging app, Vladimir Kiriyenko, CEO of state-controlled internet firm VK, said on Wednesday. The Kremlin is pushing Russians to use Max instead of Telegram, currently the country&#8217;s most popular \u200cmessaging app, but \u2060is \u2060facing stiff resistance from users, who argue that Max lags far behind its rival in terms of functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}