Voice chat in ValoRant will not work in Russia

Being in Russia, cove your allies with good matters for the slightest cross ValoRant will not work – Riot Games announced that voice chat in the country will not work because of “uncertainties in the regulatory environment”. Other CIS countries this restriction does not concern.

The key part of the application sounds like this:

Currently, we cannot provide voice chat ValoRant On the territory of the Russian Federation due to uncertainty in the regulatory environment. This will not affect Russian-speaking players from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries in the region, they will be able to use voice chat during testing stage.
How to celebrate developers, replace the chat is easy to find in the form of free apps for voice communication – for example, the Discord service, where the game has an official server.

Recall that in July 2018 Riot Disabled voice chat on Russian servers of another game – League of Legends. The reason was then the law “On Countering Terrorism”, better known as the “Yarovaya Package”, which obliges to store user audio recordings for six months.