Russian Ministry of Culture has announced a tender for the supply of iPhones 4S or its equivalents,  the agency plans to send up to 500 thousand rubles for these purposes, the relevant tender is placed on the website of Government procurement.

According to the specification to the tender, the Ministry needs 20 smartphones in black with the storage capacity not less than 16 GB. The officials also require that the phone should be equipped with two cameras, one of which must have an autofocus, face detection function and be capable of video recording. Thus the Ministry of Culture tries to keep up to the times and introduce digital technologies into the controlled area.

Earlier Moscow Regional Duma announced a tender for the supply of Apple iPad tablet computers of the third generation, the initial price of the contract was 3 million rubles. The press service of Moscow Regional Duma got it straight that the tablet computers will be the property not of the deputies, but of the regional parliament – they are purchased for the development of electronic document flow.