Ukraine: App helps people boycott Russian goods
A smartphone app to help identify - and boycott - goods made in Russia is becoming popular among Android users in Ukraine, it appears.
The app, called Boycott the Occupiers, says it can find out where a product is made - whether in Ukraine, Russia or elsewhere - by scanning the product barcode with the phone's camera. It has already been installed between five and 10 million times.
"The app will advise you if you should buy the product or boycott it," the app description says on Google Play. But the Gazeta.ru website, which is often critical of the Kremlin, warns it could "lead to increased tensions between Moscow and Kiev, experts say".
The app claims it can also detect Russian companies trying to appear to be Ukrainian or Western, such as the fashion brand Carlo Pazolini or the Greenfield tea merchant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26853689
I've got a similar app to help avoid Israeli goods - the app is called my own eyes.
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