Any Device Not Having Been Installed Russian Software Is Prohibited In Russia

At the beginning of this month, Russia decided to pass a law of giving the government the right to Internet censorship, but that was not all of the stories. At the moment, according to the BBC’s report, its newly approved law even bans on the sale of electronic devices without Russian software installed beforehand. In some cases, the government can make allowance for some normal-software devices provided that they are installed with the software featured for Russia. This decision has immediately faced an angry wave of opinions, especially from critics and marketing researchers. They claimed that for some certain devices, it is not possible to apply this software; moreover, Russia will be likely to lose a considerable number of multinational companies investing in the country. 

Lawmakers from a group called pan-partisan were the creators of the bill. Oleg Nikolayev, who is the co-author of the bill, stated that with the aim of creating a wide range of national choices for their citizens, adapting preloaded Russian software devices instead of using solely ones from other countries would definitely gain effectiveness. In other saying, the consumer may have a chance to choose then compare the quality between domestic and parallel-software devices. 

Another reason for the bill given by its advocates is the friendliness that the elderly can have when using those electronic devices. One of them, Communist party rep Alexander Yushchenko assured that the senior citizens really needed to be helped with everyday-changing software on the electrical gadgets, so a more stable one introduced by the new law would make a great contribution. 

Meanwhile, a great number of opponents worried about a dire future for Western technology corporations - Apple. Their likelihood that having to move out of Russia's market will be certain if the law is enforced strongly. Additionally, Apple's view over this problem was told to Kommersant, which described the third party's authority to add applications to Apple's system as the breach of breaking jails. They even emphasized that they would never let any potential risks doing harm to their cybersecurity. Agreeing with Apple, a national trade company also pointed out the Russian-app installation could not be possible on some gadgets; therefore, their manufacturers would have no other way but getting rid of the market.

Many people realize the bill's purpose is to force them to install a secret supervision app. A typical advocate of the opinion, Human Rights Watch also considered this new regulation as a huge threat, not only to Russian but other nations as well.