Duma bans state bodies to use foreign soft for geo data processing

MOSCOW, Feb 22 (PRIME) -- Russia’s State Duma, the parliament’s lower house, approved on Tuesday in the first out of three mandatory readings a bill banning state authorities to use foreign geo-information programs to process spatial data.

The document sets the specific features of organization of the cartographic activities and the use of geo-information programs, including protection of spatial data.

The bill introduces the ban on foreign geo-information software for processing of special data from 2026.

The country has been limiting the purchase of foreign software for state and municipal needs since 2016.

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