Meet the new app helping Russians find gas amid the country’s fuel crisis

Against the backdrop of Russia’s fuel crisis, large companies like Yandex and Sberbank, as well as individual enthusiasts, have been developing tools to help Russians find gas stations that still have fuel.

A few weeks ago, an app called “GdeBENZ” appeared in the App Store and RuStore, and it became more popular than its larger, better-known counterpart, Yandex Zapravki, with remarkable speed.

Meduza spoke with one of the app’s creators about how it came to be — and why it borrowed its name from an already-existing gas station search project. ...