From social networks to accounting: the rupture line of Ukrainian-Russian relations becomes longer

When I transmit this material, the LifeCell mobile operator, the “number one” for smartphones, perhaps one of the most democratic tariffs in the sense of tariffs and therefore his beloved youth became a pioneer - blocked access to the VKontakte network. In Ukraine, the LifeCell brand for two years belongs to the Turkish telecommunication company. The ability to quickly and implicitly comply with any “prohibitive” orders of the authorities in the homeland, in Turkey, are their chip.

Not that mail.ru. The day after the well-known decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, I received a step-by-step instruction in the newsletter on how to get around the ban and still have access to the mail if the provider is law-abiding. “We are out of politics,” the well -wishers from Mail.Ru assured me. And they offered several options: use the Opera browser turbo mode, replace the DNS server, etc.

The expanded sanctions list now includes 1228 individuals and 468 legal entities from Russia, it includes a whole pool of Internet and media industries: in addition to social networks of VKontakte and classmates- Mail.Ru Group, Yandex , suppliers of popular ERP systems of 1C LLC. Motivation is the same - a ban in connection with Russia's aggression and its support for separatism. The punishment will last from a year to three years, and pardon directly depends on the nature of interstate relations. Poroshenko said at a briefing in Strasbourg: “When the last Russian soldier leaves the independent sovereign territory of Ukraine, we will be ready to revise this decision.”

Tanks are not afraid of traffic jams

The decree of the head of state was emphasized, aimed at strengthening the country's security. “Well, of course, the tanks will start on Yandex. Tracks "break through!" - Some of the Ukrainian Facebook users were indignant, who took the initiative of the National Security and Defense Council as an attempt on democratic freedoms, the replacement of the fight against real threats, and the turn to the relevant practices of North Korea, China and Russia. “Next in line is the ban of accordion and balalaikas. If only away from the topic of corruption! " However, the VKontakte politicians, as those colleagues-journalists who follow the pages of famous characters say, began to urgently “cut out” from the network. It is not up to the coverage of the youth audience, which can come in handy for the elections. Reputational risks are higher.

I will explain about Yandex.Prokes a little more. Immediately after the decree of Poroshenko in Kyiv, a round table was collected on the topic “New sanctions against an aggressor country. What's next? " Valentin Petrov, head of the information security service, acted as a speaker from the National Security and Defense Council. In his opinion, the Russian Federation may use the Yandex services. Traffic jams and Yandex. Navigator ”for planning offensive actions in the ground part of the territory of Ukraine. “This is the same online you get information about the state of ways, throughput and the load of roads ... You can’t imagine the best situation. There are no need agents, scouts, even satellites are not needed. We give everything ourselves, ”Petrov concluded.

The leading television channels of the country began to compete for an interview with Valentin Petrov to find out what kind of punishers awaits the decree. It turned out that to those citizens of Ukraine who will be chewed and continue to “underground” to be corresponded with the help of mail.ru or hang around in classmates, nothing threatens according to the law. “It's like a seat belt in a car. We talked about risks, you neglected, put a “plug” - your right, ”said the representative of the National Security and Defense Council. And he expressed hope: thanks to the measures taken by the audience of Russian social networks, it will still be reduced several times. So, there will be fewer victims of the information war.

The fact that Russian social networks, primarily VKontakte,, at the first request of the special services of the Russian Federation, “merge” personal data of their users, in Ukraine have known for a long time.

First of all, military personnel of the Armed Forces in the Donbass. But how many commanders do not warn, one of the guys will take, but he will challenge the photo, also indicates the geolocation ...

The famous publicist Pavel Kazarin, who, after the annexation of Crimea, moved to Kyiv, gave an example from his own practice: “In October-November 2015, Roskomnadzor demanded three times from Facebook to provide them with access to my personal data. The social network each time politely sent children from Roskomnadzor and informed me of this. ( *Paul posted screenshots of messages from the FB administration - *ed. ) But VKontakte has never sent me such a letter. Guess why? "

"This is our domestic product!"

But the passions around the services for communication fade against the background of panic related to the prospect of loss of services for work. Here is what Sergey Leshchenko wrote to the FB, People's Deputy from Bloc Petro Poroshenko, in the recent past-a journalist-investigator: “The Ukrainian business is shaking. Accountant in shock. The defendant and publisher of the 1C computer program also fell under the sanctions of the decree Poroshenko. Today I met with the owner of the company "Eurosoftprom" and "Skyline Soft Kuphi" Vadim Mazur. These programs are now using 300 thousand accountants throughout Ukraine. This is our domestic product! No royalties are paid to Russia. Updates to the program are written by Ukrainian ITishniki. At the same time, the defendant and manufacturer of the Eurosoftprom program has a conclusion of the State Pedagogical University of 2017 regarding compliance with the requirements of information protection.

What happened? SBU and National Security and Service of the National Security and Defense Council? Or the redistribution of the market and the use of sanctions for raiding? Be that as it may, we begin the campaign demanding the exclusion of Ukrainian producers of software from the sanctions. I urge journalists to objectively light this collision. ”

In the most detailed, however, colleagues from Deutche Vella studied the topic. We met with the leadership of the Council of Independent Accountants and Auditors of Ukraine, questioned specialists from the All-Ukrainian Union "Chamber of Auditors and Accountants of Ukraine", talked with representatives of national IT business and lawyers. They made several conclusions.

First.

The authorities do not communicate with business and, apparently, does not know that “1C” has no analogues in functionality and price in the country-similar American and German IT products are much more expensive.

They can afford only individual large enterprises. At the same time, 1C is an actual monopolist in the market, it “lives” in almost every office, not only in accounting.

Second. Skyline Soft Kuphin (it was about it, as a victim of arbitrariness, said by deputy Leshchenko) really coordinates the work of companies that distribute in Ukraine the franchise of the popular Russian system 1C. So there is no smoke without fire.

Third. An alternative to the monopolist will be happy to compose with their products ERP and CRM-business systems, Ukrainian manufacturers: Information Technologies Corporation and the company Intellect-Service. The professional star hour of Dmitry Shimkiva, deputy head of the AP, formerly the Microsoft top manager, has come. Perhaps it was Shimkiv who turned out to be a lobbyist in this matter. “I am a supporter of the development of Ukrainian software products and services, a supporter of the fight against the Russian propaganda machine, I prefer software products and services from countries friendly to Ukraine,” he wrote on Facebook.

Immediately after the publication in the newspaper Urorovy Kur'har, the decree on blocking the work of a number of Russian Internet services (which meant-the decision of the National Security and Defense Council entered into force), the website of the presidential administration was attacked by hackers. “We see an imitation of transitions and DDOS attacks from the resources of Yandex and VKontakte, which creates artificial traffic to load and“ put ”the AP servers,” Dmitry Shimkiv informed Frends and subscribers. And he reassured: the fighters of the computer front hold the defense steadfastly, the aggressor will not pass.