Contents tagged with Russian IT industry

  • Sanctions against Russia affect Kremlin's use of certain computer fonts

     A Russian IT-company states that they had to work hard to write the code for an official operational system for the Kremlin after the license to use one of the most common font types was rejected.RusBITech is the developer of Astra Linux, an operational system similar to Windows or Mac OS specially designed to be used in Russia. The software was ordered six years ago for use by the Russian Ministry of Defense and related agencies including the Federal Security Service, the successor of the …