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VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom will establish a company that will develop a mobile operating system based on the Android open source code, Kommersant wrote, citing a government source.
Russia already has its own mobile OS from Rostelecom - Aurora, to which they wanted to transfer Russians and even spend RUB480bn on it until 2030. Aurora will remain an OS for the public sector and officials with increased security requirements, the new OS will be aimed at the consumer segment.
Despite being based on Android, the Russian "civilian" OS will not be a simple shell - it will replace the entire set of deeply integrated Google Mobile Services (GMS). However, domestic alternatives to Google Play, Gmail, Google Map, YouTube and Chrome already exist - this is the RuStore application store launched by VK, Mail.ru mail, maps and the Yandex browser, respectively. Therefore, the development of the OS should cost several times cheaper than Aurora and will fit within one year, experts say.
In fact, the Russian authorities went the way of the Chinese Huawei. Cut off from her partnership with Google in 2018, she even briefly looked at Aurora. But in the end, it created Harmony OS based on the free Android code and built its own ecosystem of half abn users around the AppGallery app store and Huawei Mobile Service (HMS).
It would be easiest for Russian developers to immediately agree with Huawei on the use of its mobile development libraries in RuStore, a source in the mobile development market told Kommersant.
9.1.10 Utilities & Renewables sector news
To reduce dependence on the Russian Federation, the EU will resume uranium mining in 2024. According to the company's website, the Finnish company Terrafame has announced its intention to start mining uranium by the summer of 2024. Uranium will be exported abroad for further processing, after which it will be used to produce nuclear energy. The facility in the Finnish city of Sotkamo is expected to reach full capacity by 2026 when uranium production is forecast to reach around 200 tons per year. Finland will become the only EU country that will mine uranium. Until the mid-2010s, small amounts of uranium were mined in the Czech Republic and Romania. Terrafame received permission to mine uranium at the Sotkamo deposit in eastern Finland in 2020. The permit is valid for the existence of reserves but not longer than until the end of 2050.
The export of electricity from Russia to China has grown by 23% since the beginning of the year to December, said Russian Energy Minister Nikolai ShulgiNovember In physical terms, the volume of supply, according to
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