A software developer with big Moscow City Hall contracts is behind a ‘social movement’ to re-elect the mayor

Source: Meduza

The developers behind a supposed social movement’s pro-Sobyanin website, “ZaSobyanina,” appear to be from “Altariks” — the same company that has won tens of millions of rubles in no-bid procurement deals to build mobile apps for the city of Moscow, notably the “Active Citizen” electronic service that resembles SeeClickFix in the United States.

In 2017, Moscow city officials infamously cut off public access to an application programming interface (API) for an electronic diary meant for local school children, after a developer created freeware that would have obviated the need for paid services designed by Taktik Labs (a company with close ties to Altariks).