Editing Economy of Russia (section)

====Information technology====
{{main|Information technology in Russia}}
[[File:Graduates in tertiary education-thousands.jpg|thumb|Russia has more academic graduates than any other country in Europe (and world leader in percentage of population with associate degree or higher: 54%, compared to 31% in UK<ref>[[Huffington Post]]: [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/countries-with-the-most-c_n_655393.html#s117394&title=United_Kingdom_318 Countries With The MOST College Graduates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013023/https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_66164c64-d4d7-44b3-8c39-b2bcc770109f#s117394&title=United_Kingdom_318 |date=12 November 2020 }} retrieved 27 September 2013</ref>).]]

The IT market is one of the most dynamic sectors of the Russian economy. Russian software exports have risen from just $120&nbsp;million in 2000 to $3.3&nbsp;billion in 2010.<ref name="Russoft">{{cite web |url=http://russoft.ru/files/RUSSOFT_Survey_8_en.pdf |title=The 8th Annual Survey of the Russian Software Export Industry |publisher=Russoft |date=22 November 2011 |access-date=5 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514052010/http://russoft.ru/files/RUSSOFT_Survey_8_en.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Since the year 2000 the IT market has started growth rates of 30–40% a year, growing by 54% in 2006 alone. The biggest sector in terms of revenue is system and network integration, which accounts for 28.3% of the total market revenues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silicontaiga.org/home.asp?artId=6539|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093355/http://www.silicontaiga.org/home.asp?artId=6539|archive-date=30 September 2007 |title=Russian IT market worth $2,4 billion |publisher=Silicon Taiga |date=26 December 2006 |access-date=12 November 2011}}</ref> Meanwhile, the fastest growing segment of the IT market is [[offshore programming]].

[[File:Beriev aircraft factory Taganrog.jpg|thumb|Interior of the Beriev Scientific and Technical Complex in [[Taganrog]]]]

The government has launched a program promoting construction of IT-oriented technology parks (Technoparks)—special zones that have an established infrastructure and enjoy a favorable tax and customs regime, in seven different locations: Moscow, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, Tumen, Republic of Tatarstan and St. Peterburg Region.<ref name="Russoft"/>

Under a [[Order of the Government of Russia|government decree]] signed in June 2013, a special "roadmap" is expected to ease business suppliers' access to the procurement programs of state-owned infrastructure monopolies, including such large ones as [[Gazprom]], [[Rosneft]], [[Russian Railways]], [[Rosatom]], and [[Transneft]]. These companies will be expected to increase the proportion of domestic technology solutions they use in their operations. The decree puts special emphasis on purchases of innovation products and technologies. According to the new decree, by 2015, government-connected companies must double their purchases of Russian technology solutions compared to the 2013 level and their purchasing levels must quadruple by 2018.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://russoft.org/docs/?doc=2460| title =Medvedev's Cabinet compels state-owned corporations to buy Russian technology| work =[[Russoft]]| access-date =23 June 2013| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131219044720/http://www.russoft.org/docs/?doc=2460| archive-date =19 December 2013| url-status =dead}}</ref>

Russia is one of the few countries in the world with a homegrown [[internet search engine]] with a significant marketshare as the Russian-based search engine [[Yandex]] is used by 53.8% of internet users in the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/21555560|title=The internet business in Russia: Europe's great exception – The Economist|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=14 March 2015|date=19 May 2012|archive-date=18 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118072812/http://www.economist.com/node/21555560|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techrobo.org/popular-search-engines-world-top-ten-list/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506082831/http://www.techrobo.org/popular-search-engines-world-top-ten-list/|archive-date=6 May 2015|title=Most Popular Search Engines in the World – Top Ten List – Tech Robo|work=Tech Robo|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://topmira.com/internet/item/1-samye-populjarnye-poiskoviki-runeta|title=Самые популярные поисковые системы в России|publisher=Topmira.com|access-date=8 December 2014|archive-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313031332/http://topmira.com/internet/item/1-samye-populjarnye-poiskoviki-runeta|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Known Russian IT companies are [[ABBYY]] ([[FineReader]] OCR system and Lingvo dictionaries), [[Kaspersky Lab]] ([[Kaspersky Anti-Virus]], [[Kaspersky Internet Security]]), [[Mail.Ru]] (portal, search engine, mail service, Mail.ru Agent messenger, [[ICQ]], [[Odnoklassniki]] social network, online media sources).