The Ministry of communications will not prevent the Zoom before the advent of the domestic counterparts

the Ministry of communications will not prohibit the use of video services according to the type of Zoom for education. This statement was made by the Minister for the digital development of Telecom and mass communications of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadaev during the press-conference dedicated to the launch of a television educational project “My school online”.

At the same time, he stressed that the situation can change, when will be developed a domestic solution.

“Now schools can use what is there. But our task Inprovements to make a safe environment for online communications. We have good achievements. We now consider several large domestic solutions in order to offer affordable and safe service. As long as we don’t launch in full, we definitely prohibit anything will not” – said Chagaev.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of education Sergey Kravtsov said that “distance learning in Russia will not replace the traditional, and its achievements will be used in order to improve the system”. According to him, when the situation returns to normal, school will open its doors.

As reported by “RG”, 18 April Ministry of education and the Ministry of communications announced the creation of a new platform for video communication, the same Zoom. This was announced by the Minister of education Sergey Kravtsov. According to him, it will become part of the “Digital educational environment”, which will consist exclusively of Russian products.