Now that the most well-known tech companies have stopped shipping products to Russia, everything in the country is in short supply, from smartphones to high-end storage systems, laptops to servers. But apparently there are product categories that you never think you’ll run out of — keyboards with a Russian layout.
As major PC makers such as Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo, and major suppliers of PC peripherals such as Logitech officially shut down their operations in Russia, the country has released products from overseas markets without the approval of trademark owners. Report Moscow Times (Opens in a new tab) (via Extreme Tech (Opens in a new tab)). To bring a new PC or keyboard to Russia, distributors can buy it in China, Serbia, Turkey, or the United Arab Emirates and ship it to the country.
Traditionally, gray imports work for the average individual who wants to save money or get something before they are officially launched in a particular country, but such products Usually lacks localization. For desktops, notebooks, and keyboards, this means that there are no engraved Russian letters. For obvious reasons, Chinese and Turkish people do not use Russian letters, so products in these countries do not have a Russian layout.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that vendors could engrave Russian letters on domestic keyboards, which had no substantial effect on product prices.according to Kommersant (Opens in a new tab) A source for notebook makers, engraving can cost as much as $ 32.
It is possible to imprint letters on desktop keyboards on an industrial scale because there are many identical keyboards and the keys are usually the same size, but because there are hundreds of different laptop models on notebook keyboards, letters. It is almost impossible to engrave. keyboard. In addition, the only way to add Russian letters to small and medium-sized retailers is to put stickers with Russian letters on keyboards with different layouts. To engrave or affix the sticker, you need to unpack the product (thus, the end user may think you’re buying a second-hand device), and in some cases you’ll need to remove the keyboard. (Warranty will be invalidated and cost will increase).
A lot of PC assembly work is done in Russia, but it is known that no one in the country manufactures keyboards, so even government agencies do not have enough keyboards using Russian characters There is none.
“There is a problem with the supply of automated workstations. [with Russian keyboard layouts] To the department as part of an already signed contract, “anonymous government sources said. Kommersant.. “Bid conditions prohibit contractors from offering workstations without a keyboard or with an English keyboard layout.”
One of the ironies of Russian layout keyboards and laptops is that they are available in most former Soviet countries (including Ukraine). Still, certain resellers in countries such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan may be willing to do business with Russia, but of course they cannot ship the quantity they need. According to renowned Russian retailer M. Video – Eldorado, 1.4 million laptops and 2 million keyboards were sold in Russian retailers alone in the first half of 2021.
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