Mintsifra changed its mind to spend 7.1 billion rubles on smartphones with Russian software for officials

Mintsifry proposed to reduce by 7.1 billion rubles. budget spending on smartphones with a domestic operating system intended for officials. The reason given was the inability to purchase equipment and components “due to the current geopolitical and economic situation.” This is stated in the list of proposals of the main managers of federal budget funds for 2022 and the period 2023-2024.

“Proposal to reduce budget allocations in 2022 by 7,104,600,000 rubles. The name of the event is to provide employees of state and municipal authorities, budgetary institutions with mobile devices with a domestic mobile operating system and applications developed for it, as well as ensuring their functioning, ”leads TASS excerpt from the document. Its authenticity was confirmed to the agency by the Ministry of Finance.

Until September 1, the Ministry of Digital Transformation was supposed to transfer 312,000 tablets to government agencies running on the domestic Aurora operating system. These tablets were previously used by Rosstat for the population census. However, in the current configuration, these devices were not needed by officials, even for free. Experts said that refinement and certification could take up to two years, and during this time the equipment would already become obsolete.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “To meet the decommissioned Aurora”.

Laura Keffer