Huawei demands US ban to end
|
The Russian IT industry is sounding the alarm. The agreement with Huawei software developers contains a clause obliging Russian programmers to comply with anti-Russian sanctions, and this may soon become a criminal offense. However, it is likely that after such laws, Huawei will comply with the laws of Russia.
Huawei assumes participation in sanctions
CNews sources in Russia The IT industry seized Russian attachments from the Chinese corporation Huawei to anti-Russian gatherings. They say that in March 2022, Huawei updated the developer agreement in its AppGallery app store.
In their words, in the document adopted in paragraph 11, which states that “You hereby implement and restrict that comply with applicable export control laws and regulations, as well as the opinions of the UN, EU, EU and other countries.”
This agreement must be accepted by every developer who wants their application to be placed in the AppGallery catalog. Text corrections have been made before the direct acceptance of its impossibility, CNews sources.
According to their decision, with the help of this paragraph, Huawei “imposes the sector on IT companies, the public transport sector (VTB, Sberbank, Alfa Bank, etc.), as well as other public sector sectors (Yandex, etc.) the participation of the UN , USA, association.
Hoping for Huawei AppGallery as a safe haven and a full-fledged replacement for the App Store and Google Play Russian artists have not yet
AppGallery currently has large large enterprises. For example, from it you can download the proprietary utility “Gosuslugi” or software for the Mir Pay payment system. Also available applications “Yandex” and “Avto.ru”.
There were no changes
When asked by CNews about the need for changes to the agreement, dated March 2022, and that coverage 11 may threaten society with criminal prosecution by the authorities, Huawei representatives replied that in March 2022 the text of the proposal for adjustment was not presented.
“In March 2022, Huawei did not take changes to paragraph 11 of cooperation with developers. This item is respected by Huawei developers and contributors around the world in December 2019. Huawei’s decision resolves the courts and regulations of the countries and regions where we operate,” Huawei’s original response.
The same point 11 that the Russian community did not like
Representatives of the IT industry confirmed to CNews that clause 11 appeared in the agreement in March 2022. When asked by the editors whether Huawei is going to the contact planet of their interest and coverage of disputed clauses, they replied: “Yes, we see signals from them that they will be guided by Russian legislation.
When asked by CNews about plans at the request of Roskomnadzor, the editorial source said that they had no idea. “No, we didn’t even think of that. “Here the problem is of a slightly different kind, it’s not good for Roskomnadzor to deal with extreme issues on all issues related to the West’s sanctions madness,” they said.
From the bag and from prison
Execution of foreign affairs in the near future may become a criminal offense in Russia, punishable by a crime. At the beginning of April 2022, a control was submitted to the State Duma, imposing such responsibility on the threat and other organizations. According to the text of the document, which is an amendment to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a possible act can be sentenced to imprisonment for up to ten years.
The list of authors is composed of senators Andrey Turchak and Andrey Klishasas well as deputies from the United Russia party Pavel Krasheninnikov and Irina Pankina. The document caused criticism, in particular, the representative of the RSPP (Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs). Lawyers noted that a number of the wordings set forth in it are vague.
Huawei takes an example from the West
Many Russian participants note that software, including large companies, is very counting on AppGallery, just like on the American app stores Google Play and Apple App Store. Probably, the Chinese store will not be able to justify.
Huawei took up arms against Russian banks
On April 11, 2022, it became known that applications from Russian banks were disappearing from AppGallery. This is stated, in particular, in the bank “Opening”. Also, the CNews edition is not present in the application catalog of Promsvyazbank and VTB. At the same time, in particular, Tinkoff and Alfa-Bank software remained available.
Huawei Russian version
At the end of March 2022, both VTB and Otkritie and Promsvyazbank, which were subject to US sanctions, lost their applications in Google Play and the Apple App Store. As of April 11, 2022, the Chinese authorities did not join the anti-Russian sanctions, and therefore it is not clear what caused the removal of Russian bank applications from AppGallery. Representatives of Huawei at the time of publication of the material of this meeting did not comment.
The once-saving alternative
Huawei is a company that has fully felt the power of American oppression. It became a lever of pressure on China in the trade war unleashed by the United States in 2018. For example, at the end of 2020, due to what happened, Huawei had to sell Honor, a “daughter” that produces its smartphones, tablets and portable devices.
CNews Analytics: Rating of Fiscal Data Operators 2022
Analytics CNews
Huawei’s AppGallery began to take off after US authorities put pressure on Google in May 2019 to shut down access to its service. After that, all Huawei smartphones running on Android began to be sold without YouTube, Gmail, and also without the Google Play store.
AppGallery has become the owner of its Google Play alternative. You can download and install it on any of your favorite Android devices directly from the official Huawei website. It is part of Huawei Media Services, a set of Huawei services that replaces itself as Google Services and has been operating since December 2019.
Meanwhile, this is far from the only replacement for Google Play. So, Xiaomi has its own store, in Russia there is experience in launching a search service, for example, in Yandex. The project called “Yandex.Shop” earned in October 2012 and received a lot of attention at the end of August 2020.
Also in March and July 2022, the Russian authorities began to call for an increase in the consumption of government applications that are not dependent on foreign companies. The VKontakte holding and Yandex were named as contenders for the development of such a project.
To a CNews request about the side, in what other alternative app stores are Russian developers, whether they are studying, in a particular Xiaomi store, CNews sources replied: “Of course, there are such options, we are studying such a possibility.” At the same time, they are not yet considering the possibility of moving to the Russian state store. “So far, there are no such plans – as well as the store itself,” they said, choosing that this store “will be just an online store, not tied to any restrictions of mobile devices or individual systems.”