MOSCOW: A compass on the smartphone screen points towards Red Square. As the distance to the target narrows, the camera app pops up and zooms in on a bearded figure in a fur cloak.
The routine is familiar to Pokémon hunters obsessed with the ultra-popular Pokémon Go game – but this is no Pokémon. Instead, it is Russia’s brutal 16th-century tsar Ivan the Terrible, or rather, his digital 3D rendition in a new app developed by Moscow authorities.
