"Mandriva today announced that the Federal Service on Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) in Russia has agreed to authorise the certification of the Mandriva Linux OS for all safe and legal use in organizations dealing with confidential information. The certification process will be finished in 3 to 6 months. This decision was released during a conference on 'Information security: regional aspects.'
"This conference was organised by the Academy of Information Systems and Federal Service on Technical and Export Control which encompasses the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service of Security (FSS), Rosinformtechnologies, the Ministry of Justice, other ministries and federal agencies of the Russian Federation, a number of regional administrations and ministries and commercial companies.trations and ministries and commercial companies..."
