By May 1, 2023, employees of all Russian federal departments must switch to using National Messengers, a communication platform developed by VK. On this subject informed government press office.
The corresponding instruction was given by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, stating that more than 250,000 employees of state institutions already use the VK platform. He also called on the authorities of the Russian regions to connect their administrations to the ARM GS system (automated workstation for civil servants). “The geopolitical situation demands it,” Chernyshenko explained.
ARM GS is an integrated browser-based service that combines an email client, cloud storage, calendar and internal portal, and also allows you to work with documents, use chat bots to track tasks and communicate via instant messengers, making audio and video. calls.
The tender for the creation of AWS GS was announced by the Ministry of Digital Development in October 2021. A month later, the department signed a contract with one of the structures of VK, its amount was 450.5 million rubles. The service was originally intended to be built on the basis of corporate messaging VK teams. Experts, however, told The Eastern Herald that the new product still cannot be considered fully domestic as long as it continues to work in foreign operating systems.
June 1, 2022 Kommersant informed that it was recommended to the heads of regions to install Russian instant messengers from the VK holding company by the beginning of June. The Russian authorities have notably decided to “transplant” officials from Zoom, Telegram and Google Docs, the newspaper notes. In the fall, the Ministry of Education banned the use of foreign messengers in schools.
