page_title: ReactOS
section_title: Lobbying for support in Russia
hierarchical_section_title: ReactOS / History / Lobbying for support in Russia
caption_attribution_description: ReactOS project coordinator Alexey Bragin shows ReactOS functionality to Viktor Alksnis The inscription under the photos: Данные фотографии сделаны по моему распоряжению моим помощником Е. Одеровой на мой личный фотоаппарат. Я передаю эти фотографии в общественное достояние и для общественного пользования. These photographs are made by my assistant E. Oderova according my order with my own camera. I donate these photographs into public domain and for public use.
context_page_description: ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for amd64/i686 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows. ReactOS has been noted as a potential open-source drop-in replacement for Windows and for its information on undocumented Windows APIs.
  ReactOS has been in development since 1996. As of April 2020 it is still considered feature-incomplete alpha software, and is therefore recommended by the developers only for evaluation and testing purposes. However, many Windows applications are currently working, such as Adobe Reader 6.0 and OpenOffice.
  ReactOS is primarily written in C, with some elements, such as ReactOS File Explorer, written in C++. The project partially implements Windows API functionality and has been ported to the AMD64 processor architecture. ReactOS, as part of the FOSS ecosystem, re-uses and collaborates with many other FOSS projects, most notably the Wine project, which presents a Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems.
context_section_description: Between 2007 and 2015, Russian ReactOS contributors representing the ReactOS Foundation made efforts at lobbying the Russian federal government. As of April 2019, these efforts have not yielded government support to ReactOS, and the Russia-based ReactOS Foundation has been dissolved since November 2015.
  In 2007, then State Duma member and nationalist hardliner Viktor Alksnis met with project coordinator Aleksey Bragin, who gave a presentation and demonstration of the project, showing ReactOS running with Total Commander and Mozilla Firefox.
  In 2011 a demonstration was given to then president Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to a high school in Verhnerusskoe, Stavropol, attended by one of the development team members.
  On 31 July 2012, Vladimir Putin was also given a demonstration during his visit as President of Russia to Seliger Youth Forum, attended by Marat Karatov, one of the development team members.
  On 1 April 2015, Bragin attended an expert meeting of the Russian Ministry of Communications on reducing Russia's dependency from proprietary software imports. Its minutes name the "creation of an open source operating system based on ReactOS for PCs, laptops and other mobile devices", as well as the "creation an open source operating system for servers based on ReactOS", placing it second among three named proposals.
caption: Former ReactOS project coordinator Aleksey Bragin (left) showing ReactOS to Viktor Alksnis
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