Федеральная налоговая служба решила, что налогоплательщикам лучше сдавать отчеты в электронном виде. Однако реализация благих намерений идет в худших отечественных традициях.
The national project "Obrazovaniye" (Education) assumes the connection to the Internet of over 50,000 educational establishments throughout the country by the end of 2007, over half of which are rural schools. The first school was connected on 28 September in the village of Novogurovsky in the Tula Region. The "last mile" for this remote region was covered using ADSL technology over a telephone line. The provider of this service, will provide unlimited 24-hour 8 Meg access, to be paid for from the federal budget, which has allocated 3 billion roubles for the program. However RTComm does not own its own communications network to connect the entire country. While there is the potential to make connections in European Russia, a separate approach is needed to address the problem on the other side of the Urals.
65% of the 30 largest banks in Russia do not have an Internet banking facility for private clients. 36% do not have this service for organisations either, despite the fact that e-banking presents a considerable saving in time, does away with queues on pay days and, on the whole, enables the client to complete over 80% of all banking operations from a remote location. However, the introduction of Internet banking requires better IT systems development and the removal of financial restrictions. For now, reports , Russia is going through a gradual development of peripheral remote banking services, such as telephone banking, WAP- and SMS-banking.
This year the viral term "blog" has become actively incorporated in the minds of people with surplus cash. And this is the result: co-founder of Ingosstrakh insurance company, Corbina Telecom and the Bookberry bookshop network Alexander Mamut, along with the creator of the Afisha.ru portal Andrew Paulson, plan to launch Russia's "largest blog portal" . The investment into the project could comprise tens of millions of dollars, while it will generate income from contextual advertising. A company called Sup-Fabrik has been created to realise the project, and former Rambler President Anton Nossik has been invited to become one of the directors.
The Vedomosti newspaper reports on rumours of Sup-Fabrik's pending deals: negotiations on the purchase of the Russian part of LiveJournal.com and its Russian equivalent , talks with AOL, Google, News Corp and others. Sup representatives for now refute any talk of deals, but they do not deny that they are actively recruiting programmers and well-known players from the .ru zone into the project. A 500 sqm office has been rented in central Moscow, in the Smolensky Passage, where rates are $700-800 per 1 sqm a year. We only have to wait for the next virus-terminology, such as "social networks", to penetrate the minds of the people with money.
На прошлой неделе стартовая страница поиска по блогам "Яндекса" существенно обновилась: там появились разнообразные рейтинги и даже облако тэгов. О секретах роботов, которые за всем этим стоят, рассказал "Вебпланете" Роман Иванов, руководитель отдела коммуникационных сервисов компании.
