Russian President Vladimir Putin gave instructions following the meeting on development of information and communication technology and communication. The IT industry will replace the shortfall in financing of state orders and will hold for her tax maneuver.”To prevent any failures in the industry, we need to replace possible drop-down financing at the expense of state orders or orders of our large companies with state participation”,— said Putin at the meeting. He cited estimates of the Ministry of communications, according to which in 2020 the costs of information and communications services will be reduced by 20%. Instructions following meeting: Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at the meeting promised to report to Mr. Putin on stimulation of development of information technologies. In his opinion, is necessary to create conditions so that Russia wanted to get foreign companies from this sector. “I think it is important… to develop an additional set of measures, including the tax maneuver in the IT industry and to report to you in the near future, specific proposals to stimulate development of the information technology industry,” said Mr Mishustin. The analytical center (AC) under the government had earlier proposed because of the pandemic, to revise the deadlines of some projects nutsprogramme “Digital economy” and the project “Information security” to exclude events which state aid in the amount of 1.6 billion roubles More — in the material “Kommersant” “”Digital economy” has become economical.”
