Employees of state institutions and members of United Russia are forced to install the "party" mobile application "Agitator ER", which gives them tasks, Vot Tak found out . Assignments relate to the praise in the social networks of "United Russia" and the war unleashed by Putin in Ukraine.
Every day, in the application created by Edinaya Russia, according to the Play Market and App Store, there are more and more instructions for writing laudatory comments under various "patriotic" content. Most often, you need to comment on posts on Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, which are now managed by Vladimir Kiriyenko, the son of the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko. The tasks also indicate that state employees must accompany their comments with certain hashtags. For example, #UnitedRussia #Don't Leave Ourselves #WeTogether #Zaworld. In some tasks, you only need to like the necessary publications.
As an employee of a state institution in the Tomsk region, who was asked to install the Agitator ER application at work, told the publication, a third-party user will not be able to use the application: to create an account, you need to send your phone number, full name and a link to social networks to the regional department of the party.
Very often, publications in very “small” groups are asked to comment. For example, among the tasks there was a link to the Za Donbass! Telegram channel: it has less than 400 subscribers, while the number of views on some posts is about 10 thousand. At the same time, real people comment, not bots, the newspaper writes.
What will happen if you do not leave comments, no one knows. The publication notes that the system of punishments is not spelled out anywhere, however, the state employees with whom the author of the material spoke, believe that they may simply not renew the contract with them later. The publication managed to contact one of those who left a comment with the required hashtags. She turned out to be a United Russia deputy from Krasnoyarsk. The woman admitted that she was performing a task from the Agitator EP application. Moreover, she said that United Russia members were asked not only to comment on the required posts, but also to post publications in support of the war on their personal social media pages.
According to the source of the publication, the application is being promoted in almost all regions of the country. In addition, United Russia is also developing the Up application with similar functionality.