Match Group, which owns about a dozen different dating services, the largest and most well-known of which is Tinder, has announced that it will complete its operations in Russia by the end of June.
«Our brands are taking steps to restrict access to their services in Russia and will complete their withdrawal from the Russian market by June 30,» says the Match Group Impact Report 2023.
This news has already been commented on in the State Duma. There, it was proposed to create – no more and no less – a federal project to combat loneliness. «The departure of "Tinder" is a small loss. We have plenty of entertainment dating services. But Russia has long needed a federal project to combat loneliness,» said State Duma Vice-Speaker Vladislav Davankov. He referred to opinion polls, according to which about 60 million people in Russia feel lonely, and every tenth woman has never been married. «This is where the problems with demography come from,» he summarized.