IN BRIEF: 'Discrimination against Russians', 'apple of shame' in VK removal from App Store

MOSCOW, June 25. /TASS/. The US corporation Apple has unilaterally taken down VK apps from the App Store without warning, the Russian company announced.

The removal of VK apps from the App Store is yet another act of digital discrimination against Russian citizens by Apple, member of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of Russia's parliament) Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology, and Communications Anton Nemkin told TASS.

Apple has forgotten about human rights, First Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Marina Kim told TASS, calling the company an "apple of shame."

TASS has collected the main information known so far.

Apple has unilaterally removed VK apps from the App Store without warning, the Russian company said in a statement.