Russian Army uses Avito to find recruits, while the Dutch owner remains silent
Prosus, a Dutch division of Naspers that owns Avito, is remaining silent about mass advertising for enlisting in the Russian army on their platform. This fact was shared on social media by Dmytro Dubilet, a businessman and former cabinet minister of Ukraine.
Presently, this site is closed to foreign traffic, but if one accesses it via a Russian IP, one can easily find lots of ads for military enlistment contracts.
Prosus also has businesses in Ukraine and Poland, such as OLX, which is a platform for selling and buying goods and services. Dmytro Dubilet writes that Ukrainian and Polish employees are gravely concerned about the war and the head office’s unwillingness to remove the military adverts, let alone to boycott. They are putting a lot of pressure on head office from all sides.
"We are calling on Prosus and the whole Naspers company to remove all military-related ads from Avito. Ideally, they should stop doing business in Russia", Dubilet writes.
