It's obviously bad for consumers. If Russian software was any good and desired by consumers, they wouldn't need the government to force it onto devices in the country. Russia is an authoritarian country like China, and it's not surprising to see them attempting to prop up their uncompetitive businesses artificially through strongarm tactics like this.
It is not about whether the software is good or bad. Russian firms are being denied a level playing field elsewhere. Even in case of the vaccination against CoVID 19, the American regime forced many countries not to order the Sputnik V vaccine. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is hit by sanctions from the US, although the German government is firmly in favor of its completion. When this is the case, why should the Russian government allow Western corporations to make profit in their jurisdiction?
You confuse "warm with soft" as they say
You either do not own the real information, or you are deliberately distorting it. Both are bad. In fact:
1. Sputnik 5 did not go through the specified verification procedure, therefore there is such an attitude towards it. And that's okay. If Pfizer had released the same "unfinished" vaccine, he would not have been allowed on the market in the same way. Before talking about the article on the Lancet, read the answer of a group of specialized specialists, there is a lot of dubious data and a lot of unanswered questions. For one thing, read what a strange situation with Sputnik5 has developed in Slovakia. Look for information on SUKL. The crux of the problem, get ready, "The lots of vaccine used in the preclinical trials and clinical trials described in the Lancet do not match the characteristics and properties of the lots sent to Slovakia." Tell me honestly - with other vaccines there are so many "incomprehensibility", "ambiguity", forgeries and other things?
Yes, for the sake of completeness, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which supplied two batches of 100,000 doses of Sputnik to Slovakia in early March, declined to comment on the conclusions of the Slovak Medicines Administration (SUKL).
2. Nord Stream 2. You are being disingenuous here too! I can describe in great detail the essence of "Russian gas terrorism" (read about it, and if you do not know where to find it, ask, I will show you everything), but it will take a long time. But you somehow, it seems deliberately, tried to "forget" about this, and present the sanctions against Nord Stream 2 as a purely political showdown between the United States and Russia
And also - do not forget that many politicians in Germany are very much interested, financially, in gas supplies from the Russian Federation. Remind me where Gerhard Schroeder works? I can also tell you about other financial dependence of German politicians on Kremlin money!
But back to the EU in 2021. According to them, by 2035, the gas deficit in the EU will amount to approximately 120 billion cubic meters. But if you read these "miscalculations", you will see the exclusively ordered nature of the article, pure advertising of Russia as in fact the only one who can solve this problem!
At the same time, not a word about TANAP, or liquefied gas from the United States, or gas from Qatar, and of course other suppliers. But in fact - this project for Russia is an attempt to influence the EU, and sanctions are sanctions for Russia's crimes against Ukraine, and I hope they will add for others too, nothing more. Of course, the sanctions should be sensitive, therefore this project also fell under the "distribution". Until 2015, there were no sanctions! But at the same time, the United States is well aware that even a complete stop of this project will not bring problems to the EU.
