MOSCOW, Mar 20 Smartphones are not used for business purposes, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, without confirming that officials were allegedly banned from using iPhones .
Earlier, Kommersant reported that employees of the presidential administration of Russia were asked to get rid of the smartphones of the American company Apple.
When asked if this information is reliable, Peskov said that he could not confirm this information.
«Actually, for official purposes, smartphones, it is clear that you cannot use them, no matter what they are, there is no difference here. Any smartphone is a fairly transparent mechanism, so it does not matter which operating system is Android or iOS. Naturally, they are not used for official purposes. And categorized conversations, categorized materials are not sent from smartphones,» Peskov said, answering journalists' questions.