The Ministry of Digital Development announced Russia's willingness to open source its social networks and applications. The head of the department, Maksut Shadev, spoke about it: Western IT solutions are provided as a "black box", which leads to the dependence of countries on the services of foreign corporations - the so-called "digital colonialism". At the same time, Russia is ready to completely open the source code of its platforms. "We have been dealing with the unwillingness of large Western corporations to meet our legislative requirements for many years. We decided to build our infrastructure on sovereign solutions."