Nintendo releases new POKEMON GO edition!

Inspired by the international success of the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the notorious Ukrainian website that collects personal data of people it brands as terrorists wants to develop a similar website to gamify its witch-hunting.

Dubbed “PokemonRu”, the app for Android and iOS mobile devices will require “players to hunt for hiding Russian mercenaries and Russian military criminals, aka Pokemons, in cities where they live, and covertly track their movements,” the Mirotvorets website described its vision.

Journalists and members of the self-defense forces on the frontline near the village of Marinovka at the Ukrainian-Russian border. © Andrei SteninOutrage as Ukrainian witch-hunt site leaks personal info of ‘terrorist-collaborating journalists’
“Information about Pokemons is rewarded with bonuses, which may be monetized after reaching a certain level. Players can also identify new Pokemons and submit data on them via an interactive map, complete with geolocation data,” the project description goes.

The website promises team-stalking and a hunt for “trickier monsters” to experienced players and stresses that “if somebody takes it for a joke or trolling, he is very wrong.”

The witch-hunting website is advertising jobs for programmers able to develop the so-called game. It says the app will use Mirotvorets’ database to pick targets.

Mirotvorets ('Peacemaker' in Russian) is a website collecting information on people who are suspected by its administrators of links with rebels in Eastern Ukraine. Technically independent, it apparently has close links to Ukrainian government and military and is reportedly widely used by Kiev’s troops deployed in the east to screen local residents passing checkpoints.

The website encourages visitors to submit data and doesn’t disclose its verification mechanism, if any.