Recently, the occupiers decided to publicize the supposed “development of new IT technologies” in Sevastopol, for which they chose the site of the so-called international forum “Kazan Digital Week 2025,” where they sent the criminal “vice-governor” Maria Litovko and “test cosmonaut” Anton Shkaplerov.
Predictably, Litovko spoke in Kazan about the alleged presence of “832 IT and communications companies” in the occupied city, “digitalization of industry,” and “import substitution,” while Shkaplerov spoke of “the introduction of unmanned aerial vehicles and sea drones using satellite navigation.”
However, even from the corresponding “glossy officialdom,” it was clear that these individuals have a poor understanding of the subject of what is supposedly “steadily developing.”
An agreement was also announced between the Sevastopol “firm” “IT Park RUS” and an industrial cluster in the Republic of Tatarstan; it should be noted that of all the “achievements in IT technology” of the aforementioned structure of St. Petersburg businessman Dmitry Gachko, only the embezzlement of 33 million rubles in “rent” from the “Sevastopol station of young technicians” was discovered publicly.
It’s noteworthy that even the aggressor-controlled “Sevastopol IT businessmen” like Yuri Kruglov, commenting on the performance described above, stated that “in 2014, this industry in Sevastopol faced a number of challenges and difficulties. Not everyone coped.”
And that same Gachko, declaring that “Sevastopol companies failed to create products that could truly surprise with their scale and innovation,” equally convolutedly admits that the Kremlin-controlled market, even “cleansed” by the aggressor of “Western competitors,” is too small and meager for the development of IT businesses, and companies are turning into “personal AvtoVAZs, constantly demanding subsidies.”
However, as can be seen from the aforementioned “Kazan contract” spectacle, Gachko himself has no intention of abandoning his “AvtoVAZ on subsidies” for the “design and serial production of autonomous robotic systems for aquatic, air, and underwater environments,” announced a month ago through the “RoboCorp” structure.
