There’s a war brewing in the Russian TV ecosystem, where the Association of Computer and Information Technology (APKiT) is imploring the government to reconsider a bill that would mandate a single provider of TV content over the internet – one built by the broadcasters. This bill would force the pay TV operators to build new software environments that would have to stream from this provider, called Vitrina, while APKiT and its supporters argue that the COVID-19 lockdown is being exploited by the government, to force this bill through. APKiT’s executive director, Nikolai Komlev, quoted in Kommersant, says that if passed without proper discussion during the pandemic, all Russian pay TV operators will have to update their systems without sufficient resources.…