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Tajikistan announced on November 12 that it has launched a national messenger app, named ORIZ.
In a statement, the Tajik government said ORIZ from TojikTelecom amounted to "an important step towards Tajikistan's digital independence."
"Dependence on foreign networks can harm information security", it added, saying all data on ORIZ would be stored within Tajikistan.
The move to bring in the app as a rival to international big names including WhatsApp and Telegram follows similar projects introduced by Russia and Kazakhstan, which have raised concerns among market critics over the potential compromising of user data by security and other authorities.
The Tajik government said the app offers good performance at low internet speeds and would be partly directed at the millions of Tajik labour migrants in Russia, a country in which limitations have been introduced on access to Telegram and WhatsApp.
Kazakhstan’s national messenger app, billed as part of a “superapp” with many other services, is called Aitu, while Russia has launched MAX.
It is thought that other post-Soviet countries may be moving towards introducing their own national messenger services.
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