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uhnope

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 04:03 AM Jul 2016

Russia To Launch Pokémon Go Clone Without CIA's Satanic Pokémons

Source: Gawker

The official launch of Pokémon Go in Russia has been delayed indefinitely, but Moscow City Hall promises to release an app by the end of August that’s kind of similar, but instead of stampeding after branded cockfighting critters, users can “catch” “historical figures” like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Yury Gagarin, Alexander Pushkin, and Russia’s only beloved dead post-punk rock star Viktor Tsoi. But you can’t battle them. And it will only work in Moscow. But you still get to walk around a lot. Nice.

Meanwhile, enough Russians are using foreign-registered accounts to download the app illegitimately that Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is investigating Pokémon Go for “possible harmful psychological effects.” A state-owned television channel recently aired a special report warning people about how they can go to jail for playing the game.

It’s not the biggest deal right now, but poke enough Russian officials into commenting on a hype thing and you get some really wonderful opinions. “It feels like the devil arrived through [Pokémon Go] and is trying to tear our morality apart from the inside,” said one parliament member. “We need to take people out of the virtual world, and this generally smacks of Satan,” said a leader of a St. Petersburg-based ultraconservative Cossack group.

Read more: http://gawker.com/russia-to-launch-pokemon-go-clone-without-cias-satanic-1784255123



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Russia To Launch Pokémon Go Clone Without CIA's Satanic Pokémons (Original Post) uhnope Jul 2016 OP
I heard there will be a very rare Pokemon character that will only be found in Siberia. nt Javaman Jul 2016 #1
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