The State Duma apparatus (which is involved, including material and technical support of the lower house of parliament - ed. www1.ru) has purchased 1800 licenses of Russian analogs of the operating system (OS) Windows and Microsoft Office package for deputies and administrative workers, the company Step Logic reported.
According to a source from «Vedomosti», we are talking about the Astra Linux OS and the «My Office» package. According to the data on the state procurement website, the purchase amount was almost 52.5 million rubles. A representative of Step Logic announced that the IT solutions were delivered to the customer “in full” in September.
The head of the Duma committee on information policy, Alexander Khinshtein, confirmed to RIA «Novosti» that deputies are shifting from foreign to Russian software. He emphasized that the import substitution program was initiated by the speaker of the State Duma.
The parliamentarian believes that domestic developers offer “mature IT solutions” that meet standards, including in terms of security. Khinshtein added that he sees no difficulties in transitioning from Microsoft software to domestic software.
Earlier, www1.ru wrote that Microsoft will not renew licenses for Russian companies after September 30. The situation was investigated by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.