Russian Messenger App MAX Goes International
Developers are expanding the platform to support foreign SIM cards while doubling down on security features.
Russia’s homegrown messenger app MAX is preparing to go global. According to Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma’s Committee on Information Policy and coordinator of the Digital Russia project, developers are working on a secure registration system for foreign SIM cards. The expansion, he stressed, will meet strict security requirements.
At the Eastern Economic Forum, Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of Sberbank, called MAX one of the safest communication platforms in Russia.
Security remains at the core of its development. With the start of the new academic year, all students will automatically have “Safe Mode” enabled. The feature hides profiles from phone number searches, blocks calls from unknown contacts, and disables unsolicited chat invitations. Within the education platform Sferum, MAX also integrates school contact lists, verified either by administrators or synced from digital gradebooks.
