Day: July 4, 2018

The state Duma Committee supported the draft on the elimination of roaming MOSCOW, 3 Jul — RIA Novosti. The state Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications at Tuesday’s meeting recommended the lower chamber to adopt in the first reading the draft law on the elimination of national and on-net roaming. Deputies from “Fair Russia”, headed by faction leader Sergei Mironov has made the appropriate initiative to the state Duma in June of last year. According to the explanatory note to the document, a draft Federal law aimed at the abolition of the differential tariffs on communications services, depending on the location of subscribers in a particular subject. “It appears that this norm is nothing but archaic, hindering at the moment development of availability of communication services in the territory of the Russian Federation, and it is fundamentally only an additional source of income for the relevant operators,”

The foreign Ministry commented on the statement about “alternative Internet” MOSCOW, 3 Jul — RIA Novosti. The words of the Director of the Department of new challenges and threats (DNV) Ilya Rogachev about what Russia may create an “alternative Internet” are not the official position of the Russian foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti in the Ministry. “Statements of the Director of DNV Rogacheva about creating an “alternative Internet” are not the official position of the Ministry of foreign Affairs, and represent the expert opinion as part of the ongoing professional debate on this topic,” — said the Russian foreign Ministry. The foreign Ministry added that “the official Russian point of view formulated in a number of initiatives on the interaction on the subject of the IIB (international information security), of combating the use of cyberspace for criminal purposes”. “We are working actively with partners, aimed at achieving a broad consensus,”

The Minister for the digital development of Telecom and mass communications of the Russian Federation Konstantin Noskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. A separate Deputy Minister for digital development will appear in key Russian ministries. This was stated by the Minister for digital development, communications and mass communications of the Russian Federation Konstantin Noskov at the conference “the Digital economy: a breakthrough into the future” at the Analytical center under the government of the Russian Federation. “[Prime Minister] Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev has accepted the decision about introduction in key ministries allocated the post of Deputy Minister for digital development. And now this decision is under implementation,” the Minister said. The Minister explained that the so-called Chief Digital Officer (CDO senior Manager or Director, digital transformation) are “change agents of the digital economy in all the key ministries.”

The Governor of the Ivanovo region told about plans on development of the region MOSCOW, 3 Jul — RIA Novosti. The authorities of the Ivanovo region see the potential in tourism, intend to develop such small towns like Palekh, said the regional Governor Stanislav Voskresensky at the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The text of the meeting published on the Kremlin website. “We see the potential in tourism. Quite serious we have domestic tourism. In General, we need to look deeply is from an economic point of view,” — said Voskresensky at the meeting with the President. He noted that, for example, this year authorities returned to the ships in the town of Kineshma, which was not eight years old. “Now we have a few visits, this year for the first time, and the city received an additional potential,” he added. Speaking in detail about the cities, the resurrection,