Russian tech is gradually pushing out foreign tech in Russia

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 28 Aug 2021 by Alex Teddy
The Russian Government is determined to tame foreign online platforms especially for social media. Some speculate that the government intends to end these platforms in Russia by the close of 2021. That is improbable. The import substititon effort has been ongoing since 2018. This is partly a response to sanctions. At first import substitution seemed risible with regard to software. Sometimes imported tech was given a Russian stamp as though that made it Russian. However, now Russian made platforms are doing well against their American competitors in Russia.Russia has a good online banking system. It is better than Japan's. Tech is the fastest growing sector in Russia's economy. The country has a huge engineering community and its technical education is formidable. The Russian internet infrastructure was built with US tech, especially Cisco. In the 1990s Russia correctly judged that it did not have the know-how to do this. The only means to build an internet infrastructure was by piggy backing on Western tech. Russian tech was then at least 20 years behind the West. In just 3 years over 70% of all Russian intercity phone stations have been replaced by digital ones. Russia used to be a generation behind the West in hardware manufacturing, particularly microchips. Russia tried to set up its answer to Silicon Valley at Zelenograd just outside Moscow. It did not succeed. The software engineers could design a decent product but at low scale. Their systems could not cope with large amounts of data. Large databae management systems there made a loss. The FSB (Russia's equivalent of the FBI) had to use the US made Oracle platform for its counterterrorist databse. Social plaform...

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