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The largest foreign IT company warned of a possible withdrawal of Russia from the fuzzy rules of the game

Major foreign IT companies can leave the Russian market “in terms of fuzzy rules of the game”, quotes the newspaper “Kommersant” a statement of the Association of European businesses (AEB ) sent to the government of the Russian Federation.

A letter to the Minister of communications and mass media Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov, the Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev and the head of FAS Igor artemevu asked the Director General of the AEB Frank Schauff.

In the AEB’s offer to delay at least six months of the entry into force of the law obliging the state bodies from 1 January 2016 to justify the purchase of foreign software. The appeal of Schauff says otherwise, a foreign IT company may leave the market because “the necessary equal treatment and non-discrimination and restrictions of free competition and access to the Russian market for foreign companies”.

If the entry into force of the relevant law will be delayed for six months, departments will be able to develop joint criteria for the localization of foreign IT companies in Russia, to them the software could also be included in the Unified register of the Russian FOR, according to the AEB.

The newspaper’s source in one of the ministries explained that the concerns of the AEB is caused not so much signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin the law as a regulation restricting government procurement of foreign software, the draft of which was submitted to the Ministry of communications to the government on 30 June. The document can be signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the next two weeks, the article says.

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The decree prohibits the purchase from the beginning of 2016 foreign software for state and municipal needs “in order to protect the domestic market of the Russian Federation, development of the national economy and support Russian producers”. Overseas you can buy only when there are no domestic analogues.

Overall last year, according to UN data, foreign direct investment in Russia across all industries dropped by 70% to $21 billion, the newspaper notes. While foreign investment is a key factor in the development of IT industry in Russia.

According to the National Association of participants of electronic trade, the most popular software developer in the public sector and state-owned enterprises by the end of 2014, became a German SAP – it solutions to government agencies has purchased 5.6 billion. Followed by American Oracle (4.6 billion rubles) and IBM (3.3 billion rubles), Microsoft (3,05 billion) and Cisco (1.9 billion rubles).

Among the domestic vendors, the most popular is 1C, products which bought 1.5 billion rubles. This is followed by the decision of companies “Galaxy” (862,7 million roubles) and “Sail” (615,8 million), Docsvision (to 170.2 million rubles) and “Contour” (57,5 million)

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