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and the metal industry are also major investors into robotics.
Major producers of robots include Swiss ABB Robots, Japan’s Yaskawa Electric Corporation and Fanuc, and Germany-based Kuka.
Yaskawa is in the process of opening a plant in the Slovenian town of Kocevje, which is due to
Security concerns surface as Russia digitises its economy
aimed at speeding up digitisation of Russian en- terprises and public-sector organisations, con- sists of several initiatives, one of which is specifi- cally focused on information security.
The initiative was supposed to be jointly funded by the communications ministry and the industry ministry, but the funding, scheduled to be dis- bursed in the third quarter of 2018, never arrived, according to Vedomosti.
The two agencies were supposed to provide RUB363.6mn ($5.5mn) to the autonomous non- commercial organization "Digital Economy," which is in charge of carrying out the national digitisa- tion scheme, and another agency, the Centre for Import Substitution, before the end of September.
However, the cash was never disbursed, putting on hold all work in the cyber security direction, which was supposed to be financed under the government programme.
A representative for Maxim Akimov, deputy prime minister in charge of digitisation, was quoted by Vedomosti as saying that some work is still in progress the absence funding.
Karen Kazaryan, a lead analyst at the Russian association of electronic communications, told Ve-
be fully operational by the second half of next year. Production at the Slovenian plant will meet around 75% of demand from Europe, Middle East and Africa, the company said recently according to Slovenian news agency STA. For the rest of the robots coming from Japan, Slovenia will serve as the main distribution hub.
domosti that the national digitization programme still lacks precise documents explaining the scope of activities, and because of the organisational issues, the programme's progress is problematic, regardless of funding.
Incidentally, government agencies that are in charge of other digitisation initiatives within the framework of the national programme have been able to collect respective funding.
The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadas- tre and Cartography (Rosreestr), which is work- ing on a digital infrastructure, and the transport ministry, which is also dealing with infrastructural issues, have apparently received relevant funding.
Meanwhile, cyber security remains an acute is- sue for Russia. In 2017, the country's economy lost about RUB600bn ($9.1 billion) due to cyber attacks, prime minister Dmitry Medvedev was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
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