In North Ossetia, following Dagestan, teachers were “recommended” not to use WhatsApp

The authorities of North Ossetia have actually banned teachers from using the WhatsApp messenger to communicate with parents of students. Instead, they were recommended to use the Sferum platform.

Previously, similar rules were introduced in Yekaterinburg and Dagestan. In the first region, Telegram was also banned.

This decision was made as part of the initiative to transfer school communication to the domestic platforms VKontakte and Sferum.

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