MOSCOW, October 4. / TASS /. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Russia has proposed to include domestic marketplaces in the list of applications preinstalled on gadgets. This is stated in a letter from the head of the RF CCI, Sergei Katyrin, to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
“More than 50% of Russian entrepreneurs sell their products through marketplaces and over 60 million Russian consumers make purchases. Despite the popularity of domestic sites among Russian consumers, their share in the world market is extremely small: Russian online retailers account for only 1% of the global e- market. commerce is dominated by foreign services (six large companies from KHP and the United States own 63% of the global online trade turnover), while services of Russian origin do not have access to preinstallation on mobile devices, while foreign counterparts are preinstalled on manufacturers' devices Huawei, Xiaomi and Honor, “the letter says, a copy of which is at the disposal of TASS.
According to experts from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, import substitution of foreign marketplace applications will proportionally increase the competitiveness of Russian entrepreneurs selling products through domestic platforms. In addition, the pre-installation of marketplaces will become “an additional driver for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the export of Russian products, will contribute to the growth of investments in trade and logistics infrastructure, and will increase the involvement of small and medium-sized businesses in the digital space,” Katyrin said in his letter.
About preinstalling apps
The Russian government previously approved a list of Russian programs for pre-installation on smartphones, computers and smart TVs sold in the country. The adopted document comes into force on January 1, 2022.
The category of browsers, search, navigation systems and cloud services for storing data includes Yandex products, the categories “e-mail”, “news aggregator” and “social networks” are represented by Mail.ru. In addition, the office software “My Office”, the service of state services and the payment system “Mir” will be preinstalled on the electronic devices.
The list of recommended audiovisual services for TV includes More.tv, Channel One, Kinopoisk, Yandex, ivi, Premier, Okko, Start and others.
