Russia should promote in international markets the past as a domestic brand, alternative to Japanese pokemon. This was stated by the Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev during the visit to Japan, asked about the popular mobile game Pokemon Go, allowing you to find the “pocket monsters” in the world using a smartphone.
“I was told that here in Japan, Cheburashka is very popular, so it is necessary to promote us. Indeed, it is a serious thing – is the promotion of our brands would be good. But pokemon is not for me”, – quotes the speaker of RIA “news”. TASS said that Ulyukayev said this, answering the question “whether the Russian company to come up with their pokémon”.
The Minister of economy said that he found it difficult to Express their attitude to the popularity of the game with catching pokemon. “I’m not in this case. I don’t much imagine that it is. So I know what a “Tamagotchi”: my children have. A pokemon – I don’t know what” (quoted by “Interfax”).
Ulyukayev downplayed their knowledge about pokemon. Cheburashka as an alternative they appeared in his speech for a reason. Because Cheburashka became popular in Japan that it is “Russian pokemon (pocket monster – pocket monster), as it was called in the media since 2003, is a small animal, not unlike any of the living beings.
The games, which was released on 4 July and became extremely popular, being used by fraudsters and leads to robberies. For example, in Missouri the offender is found to the habitat of the pokemon in secluded spots and lure new pocket monsters, and behind them there appeared and future victims of robbery.
Because the habitat of the pokemon can be, for example, railway tracks or the middle of the pond, the player in Pokemon Go can get serious injuries, and the nature of injuries depends on the country. Thus, in Bosnia and Herzegovina players expose themselves to danger by entering a minefield. According to the Bosnian demining Center, dangerous are 2.3% of the entire country, there are mines, cluster munitions and other explosive devices, mostly left over from the Bosnian conflict in 1992 – 1995. Organizations involved in mine clearance, recommend players to pay attention to the warning signs. According to official data, at risk is the safety of 545 thousand people or 15% of the population.
“Sberbank” has prepared a special insurance product for players Pokemon Go: by its terms, was injured while catching a pokémon, the user will have the right to insurance indemnity in the amount of 50 thousand rubles. Such policies will be free, and the value of the award will depend on the severity of the injury.
In Russia, the game was criticized at the Federation Council. “Orthodox Union of Cossacks “IRBIS”, announced that it “smacks of Satanism” and that it “should be banned definitely” in “churches, temples, Holy places, cultural institutions and care institutions”, and in the Russian Orthodox Church said that the game is a dangerous loss of control and suppression of the will and mind of man.
In St. Petersburg Great choral synagogue, on the contrary, announced a competition for the capture of a pokemon. In the account of the synagogue “Vkontakte” fishers of pokemon have been invited to the house 2 at Lermontovskogo Avenue to catch and kill monsters. July 18, the student, caught a pokemon in the synagogue of St. Petersburg, was given a bottle of kosher wine.
Website of “Jewish news of St. Petersburg” explains the meaning of the undertaking: “Any more or less knowledgeable people will tell you that the synagogue is not a temple is “a house of Assembly”, where – within reason, of course! is a valid and fun and creation-inspired masquerade, and children’s games. And we really want young people to know that the synagogue is a place where modern and not boring.
