The Russian Federation aims to rid its public services of reliance on foreign software suppliers. The objectives are for Russia to gain control over the software that is uses, and to create…
NEWSCreated: 15/08/2019Updated Date: 16/08/2019
Ethereum-based software will become publicly available early next year National Public Monitoring (NOM), a Russian independent association of public observers, has been testing a monitoring tool for…
NEWSCreated: 28/11/2018Updated Date: 04/04/2019
The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's Federal Assembly, is working on a law to reduce government dependence on IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. According to Bloomberg, Russian government agencies will…
NEWSCreated: 22/11/2016Updated Date: 22/11/2016
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has set in motion an action plan to increase competitiveness and quality in road works, and to improve public control mechanisms in this area, in an…
NEWSCreated: 18/12/2015Updated Date: 18/12/2015
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation — which is responsible for the Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikimedia and other Wiki* projects — launched its renewed Public Policy website. On the site, the…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2015Updated Date: 15/10/2015
The Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has announced a plan to replace proprietary software with open source and locally produced software. The plan is one of the measures aimed at…
NEWSCreated: 23/06/2015Updated Date: 23/06/2015
The Russian postal service is switching to an Open Source desktop, based on GNU/Linux, reports Cnews, an IT news site. Cost cuttings are the main reason for the migration. The IT news site says…
NEWSCreated: 15/05/2008Updated Date: 15/05/2008
The Moscow regional administration will test usefulness of an Open Source desktop by migrating several hundreds of desktop PCs to Mandriva GNU/Linux and by installing OpenOffice on a thousand others…
NEWSCreated: 13/05/2008Updated Date: 13/05/2008
Russia is going to install GNU/Linux in all schools in the country. This was announced by Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication, at a press conference on 14 September. According to a news…
NEWSCreated: 25/09/2007Updated Date: 25/09/2007