The head of the Federal Antimonopoly service Igor Artemiev proposed to introduce a program of import substitution of products of Google. As reported RIA Novosti, he said, speaking at a lecture to the students of greater new York. G. V. Plekhanov.
The lecture Artemiev pointed out that, since under sanctions, import substitution is the most important value, let’s introduce a program of import substitution for products Google.
“If today in terms of sanctions for us, the substitution is of greatest value, let’s introduce a program of import substitution for the products provided by this great company (Google — approx. ed.). Let’s do this. It is absolutely the prerogative of the government,” – said Artemyev.
In September, the FAS on the complaint of “Yandex” recognized Google as the violator of the law on protection of competition. “Yandex” has filed a complaint due to the fact that the Android operating system owned by Google, supposedly limited manufacturers of smartphones in cooperation with competing companies-manufacturers of software for mobile devices. In particular, smartphones and tablets manufacturers Fly, Explay and Prestigio.
Google was ordered to 18 December to eliminate the violation. The company has filed for the decision of the FAS the complaint that the Moscow arbitration court will consider on January 25.
Sent there by the FAS government official proposals for the substitution of Google services, not reported.
