PM wants lists of key infrastructure to replace foreign software

MOSCOW, Jun 27 (PRIME) -- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the authorities to draw till September 1 lists of typical industrial facilities of critical information infrastructure where foreign software will be replaced with national programs, the government said on Tuesday in a statement.

The precise timing of the replacement should be also determined.

The task will be executed by specially created industry committees headed by deputies of the chiefs of the relevant authorities, together with industrial centers of excellence, which unite large customers from industrial companies and experienced software developers.

“In order to speed up creation and launch on the market of national competitive software, the Finance Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry, the Digital Development Ministry and the central bank are ordered by the end of September to present to the government a plan of moves to boost venture financing of Russian IT companies, stimulate creation of private industrial venture funds, including at the expense of provided tax benefits,” the government said.

Mishustin also ordered state development bank VEB.RF, the Industry and Trade Ministry, and the Digital Development Ministry to consider a special program of financing of IT projects that would stipulate allowances to companies.

The prime minister also ruled to allocate more than 11 billion rubles from the government’s reserve fund under roadmaps on industrial and systemic software in 2023.

(84.6642 rubles – U.S. $1)

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